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A Christchurch man who died in a road accident in Thailand told his parents hours before the crash how much he loved riding his rented motor scooter.
Nick McCutcheon suffered severe head injuries when he crashed the scooter early on January 3 and died three days later. He was not wearing a helmet.
McCutcheon, 20, was in the tourist town of Krabi, on the west coast of southern Thailand, and one week into a five-week holiday with two family friends.
McCutcheon's mother, Denise McCutcheon, said she and husband Nick spoke to their son about eight hours before the accident.
"He was loving it and telling us what a great time they were having and telling us how he was loving the scooter, but nobody does it [wears a helmet] there. There's nothing you can do," she said.
"It's heartbreaking, but our comfort is that he was a fantastically happy boy and he was having a fantastic time, and then he was unconscious.
"He would never have known anything about it and he was having a riot until the last, and that's all you can hope for."
McCutcheon was on leave from his job as a communications and information systems mechanic in the Royal New Zealand Air Force. He was based at Whenuapai.
Squadron Leader Brent Bryers said "Scratch", as McCutcheon was known, was hard-working, popular and "a mate to all".
Denise McCutcheon said she and her husband saw him in a Phuket hospital before he died. He was unconscious.
The former Ferndale School and St Andrew's College Preparatory School pupil spent his secondary years in Cairns, Australia, before his family returned to Christchurch in 2007.
McCutcheon will be farewelled at the Rangiora Baptist Church at 1pm tomorrow.
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