Days away from a dream trip, she died in a horror crash on the M62
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA woman died in a horror crash on the M62 days before she was due to leave for a dream to Las Vegas. Kate Swale had been planning to fly out to the US to celebrate her best friend's 21st birthday.
But a few days before the 21-year-old and her pal had been due to set off, she died when her boyfriend Jamie Hughes' car careened off the M62 and crashed into a tree.
The pair were driving home after he picked her up from her shift at a pub. Hughes was three times over the legal limit for ketamine at the time of the crash, which he survived.
They had been in a relationship for about nine months, the Liverpool Echo reports. Liverpool Crown Court heard the pair were on the westbound stretch between junction six at Tarbock Island and junction five at Bowring Park just after midnight on May 27, 2023.
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