The names of the victims - Riyani Lowen, Anja Miler and Joel Brimble - are scrawled on the road, median strip and wooden posts at the smash site. Photographs, cards and letters adorn three streetlight poles and a RIP sign stands beside two stuffed toys across the road.

A City of Casey street sign for "Joel Way" has been removed and propped on top of a carpet of still fresh floral tributes. Coke bottles nestle beside a cigarette lighter. And a Big M milk container is taped to a pole, as are a T-shirt and scarf.

A steady stream of teens have made the pilgrimage to offer a prayer or just remember their much loved friends.

A friend of Riyani's who attends Narre Warren South P-12 said the youngsters were on their way to McDonald's when the sudden smash took their lives.

"I think it's hit hard because it's close to home. It could have been any of us," she said.

But the girl shook her head when asked if she thought teens would learn from the smash. "I believe her close friends will, but there have been so many accidents lately and people still go out there and cause accidents like this."