Sam Landsberger’s Heartbreaking Final Moment Revealed: Father of Late Football Journalist Reveals Events Leading to His Son’s Tragic Death After Being Hit by a Truck

Sam Landsberger was talking to his mother Anne on the phone when he was hit by a truck, killing him.

The football world is in mourning after Herald Sun reporter Landsberger was killed in a road traffic accident in Richmond, Melbourne on Tuesday morning on his way to work.

Landsberger was only 35 years old.

The truck driver who fatally struck the reporter has since been charged after allegedly refusing to provide a blood sample to police.

The Landsberger family have been inundated with moving tributes from Sam’s colleagues and the wider football community. The football and cricket reporter was held in high regard by all who knew him.

And his father, Jake, said the family was comforted by the fact that his son spent his final moments on the phone with his mother.

“Anne was on the phone to Sam when it happened, she heard the bang, she heard the commotion and we were beside ourselves with fear as to whether she had actually distracted him,” Jake told the Herald Sun.

‘Anne spoke to him as he walked down the street to meet his friend and former Herald Sun colleague Nick Smart.

Sam Landsberger was on the phone with his mother (second from left) when he was murdered

The decorated football journalist died on his way to work in Melbourne on Tuesday morning

Landsberger was killed after being hit by a truck in Richmond, Melbourne’s suburb

‘The next moment there was a commotion, a stranger picked up the phone and said, ‘Who am I speaking to?’ Anne said, ‘I’m Sam’s mother, who are you?’

“And he said, ‘I’m sorry to say, but your son has just been hit by a vehicle… he’s on the ground.’ The man spoke to Sam at first until he lost consciousness.”

The 35-year-old was later taken to Alfred Hospital, where he died. Jake revealed that the stranger messaged the family on WhatsApp on Wednesday.

“He texted us and said, ‘I told Sam I was on the phone with his mother and he was okay with it, knowing he was communicating with you through me.’”

Reflecting on the overwhelming love he felt for his son, Jake said, “I can’t put into words the comfort, the joy and the pride we feel because of this.

‘By the time we both took two sleeping pills to go to bed around 9pm on Tuesday night, I had personally received over 250 messages and Anne probably just as many.

A flood of tributes followed for the highly respected 35-year-old

Landsberger was destined for great things and featured on Fox Footy’s Midweek Tackle

‘The tributes, watching AFL360, seeing The Tackle postponed, the stories in the media… I said to Anne as we sat at the table crying our eyes out, I wish I could go back to the morgue in the courthouse, wake Sam up and say, ‘Sam, look how loved you were, look how admired you were’.

‘Because he had no idea. He didn’t realize it. I told him so many times that this was his dream job, I kept saying you achieved your dream and he kept looking at me and saying, ‘Yeah, thanks dad.’ He was very self-deprecating.

“What we saw completely wiped us off the map.”

More to come.