Driver killed three members of Twomey 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.

Motorist John Onions, who had been running an errand at Sainsburys in South Devon, said that he let the Twomey family’s Volkswagen Golf pull out in front of him as they both turned from the Kerswell Gardens roundabout up the hill to Hamelin Way.

He told the inquest: “It dawned on me afterwards that if I hadn’t let them in at the bottom, it would have been me.”