It came with the phone call that parents world-wide have come to fear: “Your son or daughter has had a car accident”.

Adding to the tragedy was that the boys, Marcus MacDonald and his fellow Emu Pup team mate, Jamie McNulty, were on their way to play in the Under 19 Darling Downs Rugby Union Grand Final.

They’d left town with all the zeal and excitement only young men seem to be able to muster when it comes to football matches.

Less than two hours after they left Goondiwindi in September 2006, Marcus and Jamie were dead and their families and Goondiwindi, were in mourning.

The accident occurred 15km south of Milmerran on a notoriously bad stretch of road.

Investigations revealed a tyre had blown.

But three years on, Marcus’s mother Kathy, was once more back at Riddles Oval, where once she sat and watched Marcus play so much of his football, watching another young man run around with zeal and excitement while he threw a football to his mates.

These “mates” however were from the USQ drama department and Kathy was watching a dream come true.

For three years, she, with the assistance of family, friends and numerous other groups and heplers, have been working to raise enough money to produce a road-safety message for High School students.

On Friday, she watched as a film crew taped the Goondiwindi segment.

“It’s been three years since the accident and it feels like yesterday,” Kathy said.

She admitted the previous two days of filming had been tough, being interviewed and listening to the McNulty family and the boy’s friends relive that tragic day.

“That’s been the hardest bit,” she said.

But the driving force behind the endeavor is the belief and the hope, that the message in the film will make young drivers think about the dangers on the road.

“If that helps saves a life then we’ve achieved what we hoped,” Kathy said.

The film will be ready for distribution around March next year.

However it will only make it intoschools in the drling Downs’ region.

That in itself will cost a further $6000.

The MacDonalds are looking at other fuding options ina bid to send the dvd state-wide.