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It was a clear August afternoon in 2024, and Jenny Hombsch was making her way home after visiting a neighbour.

Despite having a hip injury, Jenny loved to walk around her suburb of Baxter, on Melbourne’s Mornington Peninsula – often taking the family’s dog, Ollie, out twice a day. Since retiring, there was also more time for travel. She and husband Steve were in the midst of planning a caravan trip across the country.

But the couple never made it on that trip. Just 100 metres from home, a car exiting the nearby freeway struck Jenny, 68…

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