A van driver drifted across the M4 and smashed into the back of a stationary car on the hard shoulder, killing two young children, an inquest was told. Martin Freeman, 41, had been drinking and taken drugs before veering from the outside lane and causing the horror crash.
Newman's Ford Transit collided with a vehicle carrying little Gracie-Ann Lucas, four, and her three-year-old brother Jayden-Lee Lucas. Both of the siblings were also known by the surname Wheaton and their mother was also incident.
The collision happened on the westbound carriageway of the motorway, between junctions 28 and 29 in Newport. Gracie-Ann died the day after the crash while Jayden-Lee died five days later. The children, from Tredegar, were travelling home from a birthday party when the car they were travelling in was struck by a van being driven by Newman, of South Avenue in Croeserw, Cymmer, Neath Port Talbot, Wales Online reports.
