AS they raced along the New England Highway at more than 200kmh, the flash of red and blue lights in their rearview, those in the back seat of the stolen car egged the 14-year-old driver on.
"F---in' oath big boy, yeah big boy," says one passenger as he zooms in on a speedometer that reads 208kmh.
A woman in the back seat films the chase too, telling the teen driver to "go, go go" and letting him know what the pursuing police are doing.
"They're up our arse, ready, go, send it," she says.
"They're pumpin it. Look at 'em all."
Another voice can be heard giving directions, telling the 14-year-old "jump on the opposite side".
It is after midnight on September 7 last year and a pursuit that started when a blue Honda CR-V blew past an RBT at Muswellbrook is now entering seriously dangerous territory.
Since police switched on the lights and sirens in Maitland Street, the car, stolen from a house at Wallsend the night before, has travelled 29 kilometres in just 11 minutes at an average speed of 158kmh.
Between Muswellbrook and Aberdeen, the teenager is captured on in-car police video swerving between lanes, crossing onto the wrong side of the road to overtake cars and doing 200kmh in a 60kmh zone.
But it is when the car is bypassing Scone that things go horribly wrong.
The Honda travels around a bend and approaches the rear of another car, braking briefly before the 14-year-old tries to undertake the other vehicle.
This manoeuvre causes the Honda to leave the road, travel along the grass before hitting a fence, becoming airborne, flipping and impacting heavily on its roof.
The three passengers in the back are seriously injured, one is thrown from the vehicle and found lying on a fence.
The 14-year-old driver and 17-year-old front seat passenger are trapped.
The 17-year-old is unresponsive, while the 14-year-old is coming in and out of consciousness.
Eventually, rescue workers release the 17-year-old from the front seat, but he is declared dead at the scene.
The 14-year-old driver remains trapped for about an hour before he is extricated and taken to John Hunter Hospital.
Police said at the time the pursuit and crash were the subject of a critical incident investigation and independent review.
Details of what happened inside and out of the stolen car on the night of the crash can now be revealed after the boy, who has since turned 15, this week pleaded guilty to aggravated dangerous driving occasioning death - escaping pursuit.
The boy also admitted to three counts of causing bodily harm by misconduct relating to the three surviving passengers and will be sentenced in Newcastle District Court in November.
The boy's age means he would usually be dealt with in the children's court but, due to the seriousness of the case, prosecutors made an application to have him committed to the NSW District Court for sentence.
His matter was mentioned again on Thursday when Judge Roy Ellis was told there would be a significant argument about jurisdiction and whether the teenager should be sentenced under children's court legislation or according to law.
According to an agreed statement of facts, three teenagers - including the 14-year-old driver and the 17-year-old boy - were driven from the Tamworth area to Newcastle in the week before the crash.
They were at a house at Waratah when two others arrived in a car that had been stolen that night from a business in Walford Street, Wallsend.
Together, the five set off in the stolen car to drive to Tamworth, with the 14-year-old behind the wheel.
It was about 11.55pm on September 6 when the stolen car drove past a stationary RBT set up on Maitland Street at Muswellbrook.
Police gave chase and activated their warning lights and sirens, with at least one other police car joining in the chase.
The in-car video of the lead police vehicle shows the teenager driving at excessive speeds, weaving across lanes, driving on the wrong side of the road and overtaking other cars on the wrong side of the road.
As the Honda exited the bypass around Scone, the teenager went to undertake another car and lost control, the car flipping onto its roof near the intersection of Makybe Diva Street.
Police requested an ambulance before they had even stopped and ran to check on the occupants.
The three backseat passengers had fractures and lacerations, while the two teenagers in the front were trapped.
The 17-year-old suffered critical head and chest injuries and died at the scene.
After an hour of being trapped, the driver was freed and taken to hospital.
He was so young that he was below the minimum age at which blood samples could be obtained, according to court documents.
He was later released from hospital, charged and appeared in the dock in Broadmeadow Children's Court with his head down.
He was granted bail and ordered to attend school after he had been "permanently" absent to care for a sick family member, a situation Judge Andrew Eckhold labelled "completely inappropriate".
Judge Eckhold told the boy he couldn't do anything about the past.
"The justice system will resolve what happens to you," he said.
"You can't control any of that.
"What you can do, is do the right thing from now on.
"Otherwise this will ruin your life.
"This experience means you are motivated to do better.
"If you are involved in a matter of this kind you are obligated to live a better life."
