Family and friends of a man killed in a crash in Sydney’s west yesterday have told 9News their lives will never be the same again.

Father-of-even Lual Awan, 49, was driving to work yesterday when a car slammed into his vehicle on the Great Western Highway in St Mary’s at 4am.

He worked at Sydney’s Domestic Airport as a traffic controller for Qantas. 

Father of seven Lual Awan, 49, was driving to work yesterday when a car slammed into his vehicle on the Great Western Highway in St Mary's at 4am.
Father of seven Lual Awan, 49, was driving to work yesterday when a car slammed into his vehicle on the Great Western Highway in St Mary’s at 4am. (Nine)

“I can’t really wrap my head around it,” Nephew Yuol Yuol said.

”Police came and knocked at the door and informed the family members what happened and they were all distraught.”

Awan fled war in Sudan in 2008, moving to Sydney for a new life. In recent years he was known as an advocate for the South Sudanese community.

He was also a prominent member of his local church. 

“The community is right now devastated … It will never be the same again for the family,” Reverend Samuel John told 9News.

Father of seven Lual Awan, 49, was driving to work yesterday when a car slammed into his vehicle on the Great Western Highway in St Mary's at 4am.
Father of seven Lual Awan, 49, was driving to work yesterday when a car slammed into his vehicle on the Great Western Highway in St Mary’s at 4am. (Nine)

Awan was the proud father of seven children, the youngest, his five-year-old daughter.

The 43-year-old man who allegedly hit him was a disqualified driver.

Police allege the man accelerated when he noticed a police van near him. 

He is currently in Nepean Hospital, where he was taken for mandatory testing.

Police now say his injuries are more serious than they thought, and he was kept in hospital overnight.

No charges have been laid yet. 

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