Four of the passengers in the vehicle have since been discharged, while another remains in Royal Perth Hospital.
“Their lives will go on, mine’s just empty,” Bragger said.
The group was understood to have been on a camping trip to celebrate Caitlyn and her boyfriend’s anniversary.
Bragger, a 47-year-old former British army veteran, said nothing in his life had prepared him for the pain of losing his daughter.
“Ten years in the army – it’s nothing compared to this,” he said.
The father and daughter shared a close bond which included road trips, camping, and flying a Cessna when Caitlyn was 10.
“She had no fear … tell her she couldn’t do something, she’d prove you wrong,” Bragger said.
“She was the world.”
Bragger’s final message to his daughter before the camping trip simply read: “Stay safe, and enjoy.”
Caitlyn’s death has devastated the local community and a GoFundMe launched to help the family has so far raised nearly $14,000.
The page read that Caitlyn brought “a ray of sunshine everywhere she went, so outgoing and never left a dull moment in life”.
“Her family are now left broken and in pieces, lost and confused. No one ever expects something like this to happen, you can’t prepare yourself.”
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