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

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.