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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ted Hennessey

Mother and daughter ‘burned to death after driver on cocaine crashed into them’

A mother and daughter burned to death on their way to school after a since jailed van driver using TikTok while on cocaine crashed into them, a court has heard.

Luke Flanagan, 28, hit 55-year-old Emma van der Avoird’s Peugeot 2008 as she was taking her daughter Khiana, 16, to school at around 8am on November 1 2021, before it burst into flames.

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