The devastated mum of a 'beautiful and funny' young woman killed when her ex-partner drove into a taxi at 98mph says her family has not seen justice.
Paige Rice, 22, was the passenger in an Audi S3 when it crashed, head on, into the Mercedes taxi inside the Queensway Tunnel under the River Mersey in Liverpool just after midnight on Sunday, October 17, last year.
The Audi was being driven by her ex-partner Callum Miller, a 27-year-old labourer from Stockport, who also died from his injuries.
An inquest into their deaths, held at Gerard Majella Courthouse in Liverpool today, heard how the driver of the taxi suffered 'life-changing' injuries to his leg and hip in the collision and has undergone extensive surgery since. READ MORE: Children killing children: Inside Greater Manchester’s teen knife crime epidemic The court heard Merseyside Police initially launched a criminal investigation into a potential offence of causing death by dangerous driving, but the probe was dropped when it became clear Mr Miller would not survive.
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