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A root said: 'There is nary mode a erstwhile RAF Tornado aviator would ever thrust the incorrect mode down a motorway by mistake'
- Published: 23:19, 23 Oct 2024
- Updated: 23:19, 23 Oct 2024
A DRIVER who killed 4 radical successful a motorway clang is simply a erstwhile Top Gun who trained RAF pilots.
Richard Woods headed the incorrect mode on the M6 for astatine slightest 3 miles earlier helium deed different car head-on.
Woods, 40, besides died and police are probing the fearfulness crash.
A root said: “There is nary mode a erstwhile RAF Tornado aviator would ever thrust the incorrect mode down a motorway by mistake.
"There are suggestions helium had been nether a batch of accent and the presumption is helium did it deliberately portion his caput was unbalanced.”
Woods spent 14 years successful the RAF and joined defence steadfast BAE successful 2020.
He was based astatine RAF Marham successful Norfolk, wherever helium was successful complaint of the F-35B Lightning formation simulator.
Police yesterday confirmed that Woods, of Cambs, was the clang operator connected the northbound M6 successful Cumbria connected October 15.
Jaroslaw Rossa, 44, and Jade McEnroe, 33, of Glasgow, died on with Jaroslaw’s sons Filip, 15, and Dominic, seven, Jade’s lad Arran, seven, is successful hospital.
Filip and Dominic’s mum Kamila said: “We are heartbroken astatine the passing of our beloved angels - Filip and Dominic.
“Filip was precise intelligent, delicate and afloat of love. We volition ne'er hide his smile, unfastened arms, and the words ‘tuli, tuli’ (hugs, hugs).
“He was fascinated by machine games but besides incredibly bully astatine chess. He loved chemistry and dreamed of studying astatine the University of Glasgow.
Two children, antheral & pistillate killed successful fearfulness M6 clang which has near 3rd kid earnestly injured
“Dominic was ever smiling, precise resolute and sociable. He was highly caring, ever reasoning of others first, and the archetypal to assistance if idiosyncratic was successful trouble.
“Always surrounded by a radical of friends of each ages. He loved dinosaurs and Pokémon, but astir of each helium loved penguins and dreamed of adopting one.
“Our lives volition ne'er beryllium the aforesaid again.”