Home and Away star Jessica Falkholt fighting for life after fatal Boxing Day car crash which kills parents

The 29-year-old is in critical condition alongside her sister, Annabelle

Jessica Falkholt, who played Hope Morrison in the popular Australian soap (Southern Star Group)

Former Home and Away star Jessica Falkholt is fighting for her life after a triple-fatal head-on-collision in Australia.

The actor, aged 29, is in critical condition alongside her 21-year-old sister Annabelle following the crash which saw them lose both their parents on Boxing Day morning (26 December). A 50-year-old man driving another vehicle was also killed in an incident police say was caused by one car being on the wrong side of the road.

According to ABC News, onlookers immediately rushed to free the passengers on the Princes Highway at Mondayong in the South Coast, a region in the Australian state of New South Wales.

Falkholt appeared in the long-running soap as Hope Morrison in 2016.

Following the tragedy, NSW police have issued a warning to drivers about “fatigue and complacency” with the state's road accident fatality toll rising to 873 for 2017 - up 12 from the same time last year.

NSW Police Chief Inspector Phil Brooks said: “More than half of these have involved single vehicle run-offs either into a tree or a telegraph pole - sadly killing that driver and/or their passenger - which is an indicator to us that fatigue is the most likely outcome in these very sad and tragic events this close to Christmas.”

Both Jessica and Annabelle Falkholt remain in hospital with family by their sides.