Daily Mail
November 20, 2013
A woman lost her husband, toddler son and unborn child when a suicidal driver ploughed head-on into their car, an inquest heard yesterday.
Elber Twomey, 36, was the only survivor of the crash caused by taxi driver Marek Wojciechowski, who had earlier written a suicide note after splitting up from his wife.
Wojciechowski died, along with Mrs Twomey’s husband Con, their 16-month-old son Oisin, and the baby she was carrying. She was 24 weeks pregnant.
After reading his suicide note, Wojciechowski’s wife alerted police, who followed him but were unable to stop him before he smashed into the family’s vehicle.
Oisin was killed immediately and Mr Twomey, who was 39, suffered serious brain injuries and died ten months later.
The crash happened on the last day of the family’s summer holiday in Devon.
An inquest into the deaths heard that Polish-born Wojciechowski, 26, had left a four-page suicide note after breaking up with his wife Agnieszka.
She alerted police who spotted his vehicle and turned on their siren and flashing lights.
But instead of stopping, witnesses say Wojciechowski sped on, veering across into the opposite carriageway and straight at the Twomeys’ car making it ‘impossible’ for the family to avoid him.
Witness John Onions said he still suffered flashbacks after letting the Twomeys’ VW Golf overtake him at an earlier junction.
Describing the collision, Mr Onions told the inquest into the deaths of Oisin and Wojciechowski that the Pole’s Vauxhall Vectra ‘just took off’.
He continued: ‘It just went straight across into the car in front of me.
‘It sounds awful now, but the crash looked deliberate. It decided to accelerate and go straight across the road. The image was that the Vectra seemed to shoot straight across