27-03-2025 17:19 via theguardian.com

Ex-RAF pilot who killed himself and four others on M6 was suicidal, inquest hears

Coroner records Richard Woods’s death as suicide after he crashed into family’s car while driving wrong wayA former RAF pilot who killed a family of four and himself when he drove the wrong way for more than a mile on a motorway wanted to take his own life, an inquest has heard.Richard Woods was almost four times over the legal drink-drive limit when his Skoda Fabia hit a Toyota Yaris head on, at speed, on the M6 northbound in Cumbria in October last year. A two-thirds empty bottle o
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