It was her request for them to separate that sent him to his death, according to the distraught wife of the suicidal Polish taxi driver who caused multiple deaths when he deliberately ploughed into the car of a Cork family.

A witness to the car crash that killed three members of the same Cork family has told how the driver seemed to accelerate in their direction in the moments before the collision.

An Irishman whose two children were killed in an horrific road crash has lost his 10-month battle for life, it has been reported.