A young man whose life was cut short in a horror smash was on the cusp of achieving the better life he'd moved to Australia to pursue.
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Bhutanese care worker Tashi Palden Dorjee died when his car crashed into a tree on Antill Street and burst into flames last Sunday morning.
Canberra's Bhutanese community has rallied around Mr Dorjee's family and his injured passenger after the crash.
The Prime Minister of Bhutan Tshering Tobgay, who was in the city last week visiting Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, wrote on his Facebook page he was monitoring the situation and would send an ambassador to assist with repatriating his body.
Speaking from India, Mr Dorjee's cousin, Tashi Wangmo Tobgyel, said the 24-year-old was a caring and hard-working man who put his family first.
"He was a beautiful human being always looking out for other people, and checking to see how we were. He was an ambitious person and had also achieved a lot in life. He was always tired and working very hard to survive and save money," Ms Tobgyel said.
"I want people to always remember him as the ambitious, hardworking, kind, gentle and advisable human being, brother, son, husband [he was]. Most of all, he was a friend you could always rely on."
Anne Kirwan, chief executive of CatholicCare, where Mr Dorjee worked as a personal care assistant, said he was a "great loss to our community".
Mr Dorjee began as a cleaner at the organisation and worked his way up, after moving to Canberra via Perth with his wife Sonam less than a year ago.
He had recently enrolled in a community services course at the Canberra Institute of Technology to further his career in the care sector.
Ms Kirwan said through his work, Mr Dorjee brought joy to many people living with disabilities as well as older Canberrans. She said he loved to "connect" with people.
"Tashi was a very popular and well-respected member of the team. People he went into the community and supported really liked Tashi and it was very difficult for us to have to tell his clients and his colleagues about his passing, we've certainly had some very upset people we've been trying to support," she said.
"It's very sad to lose someone like Tashi from our organisation and sector, it's really a tragedy. He was so young. To his wife and his family, our hearts and our thoughts go out to them and we are trying to provide support to his wife in various ways to help her to get through this."
Mr Dorjee was the eighth person killed on ACT roads this year. The death of a 63-year-old woman on Isabella Drive in Chisholm on Thursday afternoon brought the ACT's 2016 road toll to nine.
