A coroner has praised a woman, whose entire family was wiped out in a car crash in England caused by a suicidal driver, for her courage and dignity in the face of unspeakable tragedy, and for her selfless campaign to raise awareness of suicide risk assessment.

It is virtually impossible for those of us whose lives have followed a relatively smooth path to imagine the despair suffered by a woman who lost her entire family in a car crash caused by a suicidal taxi-driver in England.

A 90-year-old widow died on Tuesday night after being knocked down by a car as she made her way to a weekly bingo session.