UK watchdog probes if police were chasing crash car

Britain’s police watchdog has confirmed it is investigating whether the car which crashed into a Cork family — killing a 16-month-old boy and an unborn baby and seriously injuring their parents — was being chased by police at the time.

Oisin Twomey and his unborn sister Elber Marie died last Friday after the Volkswagen Golf in which they were travelling with their parents, Con and Elber, from Meelin, was struck by a Vauxhall Vectra being driven by a taxi driver, who also died in the crash.

Devon and Cornwall police initially said the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) was called in because the collision was “witnessed by a police officer”.