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A heartless prank has devastated seven families who were made to believe their children had been seriously injured in car accidents.

Two teenage girls have been charged with allegedly calling the families at random in the state's southwest, telling parents their children were fighting for their lives in hospital.

The two alleged pranksters, aged 18 and 16, reportedly posed as medical staff from local hospitals when they made the calls.

Monica St Baker was one parent who received a call. She answered the telephone on September 1, only to be told her daughter had been in a car crash and was in a critical condition.

The same night six other families from Griffith received similar calls.

Mrs St Baker said her daughter Tiana, 17, who had got her licence that day, was out with her brother Ethan, 15, when someone claiming to be a nurse from Griffith District Hospital telephoned about 10.30pm.

"It's your worst fear that you child might have an accident when they first get their licence; in five minutes our whole life changed," Mrs St Baker said.

After the telephone call, Mrs St Baker said she and her husband Mark were about to rush to the hospital, when they managed to get through to their son on his mobile phone.

"He told us he was out the front. They had just driven in our driveway, I collapsed and couldn't stop screaming," the worried mother said.

"Most of the families had been given the same call but one family ... was told their daughter had overdosed on drugs."

On the other side of Griffith, Steve and Sue Knox were watching television when they got a phone call to say their son Mitchell was involved in a crash and was on the operating table.

"My wife answered the phone and came out of the kitchen with tears rolling down her face, she was beside herself with grief" Mr Knox said.

"He was out with friends - they are all good kids. My first vision was tubes coming out of him and someone saving his life."

Mr Knox said his wife drove him to hospital to check on their son, while she took their seven-year-old daughter Hayley to a relative's house.

"I went in and said I was here about Mitchell, the man looked at me blankly and told me no one had been here for an accident," Mr Knox said.

Mr Knox said he and his family were still rattled by the alleged prank.

"Still today ... it causes grief and to think it was their idea of a joke," he said.

source: news.com.au

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