Richard Woods, who was killed alongside four other people in a tragic crash on October 15, was reportedly a 'former RAF Tornado pilot' and was said to be 'under a lot of stress'

The man who drove the wrong way down a busy motorway and killed two children, their father and his partner was a former Top Gun pilot who trained RAF recruits, it has been claimed. On Wednesday, Cumbria Police formally identified the 40-year-old Skoda driver as Richard Woods.

The families of four people from Glasgow who died in a head-on crash after a car drove the wrong way on a busy motorway have paid tribute to their loved ones.

Richard Woods, from Cambridgeshire, was "under a lot of stress" recently, it is said, in the wake of the crash on the M6 in Cumbria which led to his death and that of four other people

Five people, including two children, have been killed in a horrific crash on the M6 motorway. The two-car smash happened on a stretch of the motorway in Cumbria at around 4.04pm yesterday afternoon (Tuesday), close to Tebay Services. It involved a Skoda and a Toyota, Cumbria Police said.

A man has been charged over the death of a woman in a car crash on the M6 nearly two years ago. Chloe Williams, 19, from Dudley, was a passenger in one of three cars involved in the collision near Sandbach in Cheshire in December 2022.

A man who is said to have driven the wrong way down the M6, resulting in a horrific crash where he was one of five fatalities, was a former RAF pilot, reports claim. Richard Woods was behind the wheel of a Skoda on the motorway near Tebay services in Cumbria on October 15 when his vehicle collided with a Toyota.