Kerry Arrow with her husband Phil Budding on their Healesville property where they married. Photo / Facebook, Kerry Budding
A new mother has died in Australia two weeks after her husband drove their four-wheel drive into a dam on their rural property in Victoria.
Child psychologist Dr Kerry Arrow was a passenger when her Kiwi husband Phil Budding drove their Nissan Pathfinder off a steep dirt driveway, plowing under water.
Dr Arrow died in Royal Melbourne Hospital, where she flown in a critical condition from her home at Healesville, north east of Melbourne, the
Mr Budding was taken into police custody for questioning, but later released without charge, following the Saturday morning accident.
A Go Fund Me page, set up to help Mr Budding raise his young son, has been shared 872 times.
"Little Jock has had a rough start in life but there's a lot of love out there for him and it's time to show it be helping him and dad out with a bit of spare coin," it said.
"Jock's old man would never ask for help but that's never stopped his mates in the past and most certainly won't stop us now."
Police were investigating the circumstances of the Nissan ended up in the dam.