NSW Falkholt sisters fighting for life

The two young women orphaned in a horror head-on crash on the NSW south coast are still fighting for life as friends send messages of love and support.

Home and Away actress Jessica Falkholt remains fighting for her life following a crash that killed her parents and injured her sister on the NSW south coast.

Home and Away actress Jessica Falkholt remains fighting for her life following a crash that killed her parents and injured her sister on the NSW south coast. Source: eCaster

Messages of love and support have flooded in for actress Jessica Falkholt and her sister Annabelle as the two fight for life after a fiery crash that killed their parents on the NSW south coast.

Jessica, 28, and Annabelle, 21, were left in a critical condition after the Boxing Day crash near Ulladulla.

The 28-year-old, a graduate from the National Institute of Dramatic Art who has played a role in Home and Away and other Australian television series, was traveling with her family when their vehicle was involved in a collision with a four-wheel drive.

Witnesses pulled the girls from the wreckage as the vehicles were engulfed in flames but her parents died at the scene, along with a 50-year-old man named in reports as Craig Whithall.

Annabelle was still fighting for life in Liverpool Hospital on Thursday evening while Jessica is in a critical condition in St George Hospital.

Co-star Jackson Heywood, writing on Instagram, called for people to drive safe alongside a photo of Ms Falkholt.

"Can we please send all our support, love and prayers to Jess and her sister Annabelle, fighting for their lives after their crash on boxing day," he said.

"Much love darlin. Im with ya. May u both make a full recovery."

Network Seven said the Home and Away family are sending their love and support to the actress and her sister.

"Although her time on set was brief, once a part of the Home and Away family, always part of the family," a spokesman said.

The road toll in NSW is currently at 21 after a crash claimed a woman's life on Thursday morning.

She was driving a van that collided with a heavy vehicle traveling in the same direction on the Hume Highway at Gunning, police said.


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