An Irish couple are fighting for their lives in an English hospital – after a Polish suicide driver rammed their car and killed their son and unborn baby.
The unnamed family – from the South of Ireland – were on holiday in the English coastal resort of Torquay when tragedy struck.
Their car was hit head on by a young Polish driver who has since died in the same hospital where doctors are fighting to save the father’s life.
Police now believe that the Polish driver ‘ploughed into them head-on on purpose’ in a suicide bid.
The Irish Mail on Sunday reports that eye witnesses claim the Polish driver ploughed into the second car deliberately.
He was arrested before being taken to hospital, where he subsequently died
The couple’s two-year-old son died immediately in the crash while the pregnant mother also lost her unborn baby.
A police spokesman said the 36-year-old mother and 39-year-old father have undergone operations.
He said: “The male driver remains in intensive care in Derriford Hospital, Plymouth and in a critical condition having undergone surgery.
“The 36-year-old woman, who was a front seat passenger, was initially conveyed to Torbay Hospital but later transferred by land ambulance to Derriford Hospital where she remains in a critical condition.
“The female casualty was pregnant and an operation was carried out to save the unborn child. However, the child did not survive.”
The crash was witnessed by a police officer who was immediately on the scene.
A total of 25 emergency service vehicles attended the incident, along with three air ambulances which helped to take all four occupants of the cars to hospital.
The spokesman said: “The weather conditions at the time were challenging, with heavy rain falling creating an extremely difficult working environment for the emergency services and was very traumatic for all involved.
“Family liaison officers have been appointed to support the families.”
Paul Netherton, Assistant Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall Police told the paper: “This was an extremely traumatic incident where emergency services were working on the family at the scene and subsequently in ambulances and at the hospital, and it has been traumatic on all those involved.
“It was a head-on collision at speed. The black Vectra was coming down the hill and appears to have swerved into the path of the oncoming car.”
He added that the adverse weather conditions did not contribute to the cause of the collision.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.NXS | Jul 16, 2012, 02:14 AM EDT
hear... hear...
WoundedKnee | Jul 12, 2012, 10:28 AM EDT
I see that an elderly woman (80 ) was viciously mugged in Kilkenny City. The police have arrested a Polish man. Better not to comment further on that particular case until it goes to trial, but it is definitely true that many foreign settlers in Ireland commit crime. One in three immates of Irish jails are foreign migrants. Before the clowns chorus of ciaradex and her buddies start yelping, yes, I do recognize that Ireland produces her own criminals too. But the difference is that every person victimized by a foreign settler in Ireland would have been safer if that migrant had not been imported into Ireland.
ciaradexy | Jul 10, 2012, 12:21 PM EDT
George/WoundedKnee/Kev408, I know well where Cuba is as I spent 3 wonderful weeks there in 2008! Im sure you claim to like Cubans but only when theyre not in your country which by the way, is the US not Ireland.
NXS | Jul 10, 2012, 03:42 AM EDT
ha.. ha..
WoundedKnee | Jul 10, 2012, 02:40 AM EDT
hermittalker: Please don't hijack this thread in order to post your pro-EU propaganda. That's a disgusting lack of taste on your part. You have ample opportunities on other topics yet you keep quiet.
citizen69 | Jul 09, 2012, 07:01 PM EDT
A tragic incident but sadly seemingly no accident.
yerrman66 | Jul 09, 2012, 06:01 PM EDT
Iregardless of his or the other peoples nationality, apparently he left a sucide note before he ploughed into their car ,his car is much larger than their VW Polo he clearly he wanted to do damage to the other party otherwise he would have crashed into a larger vehicle ie. a truck or he could have done the decent thing and ploughed into a concrete wall.He just destroyed a family because he wanted to check out.Sick Coward.
WoundedKnee | Jul 09, 2012, 04:39 PM EDT
ciaradexy: What a hypocrite you are, as I have shown elsewhere. What do you have against Cuban people? Could you even find Cuba on a map? You and your alter ego, what nuts. He thinks that "immigrants cause all accidents". Guess he believes there were no wrecks before the era of Mass Immigration. The dopey duo, that's for sure.
WoundedKnee | Jul 09, 2012, 04:36 PM EDT
nxs is a foulmouth. Check out his nasty post a day or two back on the thread about the young lady who lost her engagement ring. I don't dialog with dirt.
NXS | Jul 09, 2012, 02:58 PM EDT
woundedknee.. exactly that is the point. All my ranting is because you mentioned as if the immigrants cause all accidents, while this post should be about the hard times these people involved in accident go through. a racist clown? me? you read your very first comment woundedknee about polish nationals? are you woundedknee? or woundedhead? and you ask hermitalker not to talk nasty racism? get a grip.
ciaradexy | Jul 09, 2012, 02:55 PM EDT
Canadian, you're part of the 1% so!!;o)
canadianirish | Jul 09, 2012, 02:48 PM EDT
How very tragic. My thoughts and prayers are with this young couple. God be with them.
canadianirish | Jul 09, 2012, 02:43 PM EDT
@ciaradexy - you say: "Its 99% Americans on here..." Really?? Please don't include me in that statistic. I don't much like being referred to as 'American'. Canadian or North American will due nicely, thank you. :))
ciaradexy | Jul 09, 2012, 12:32 PM EDT
NXS, nice to have a fellow Irish person on this site. Its 99% Americans on here so at least you know what youre talking about! WoundedKnee is George Dillon, an American who has issues in general but also massive issues with migration into Ireland. He seems to get very upset about it. (He lives in the US!)Him getting upset about it would be like you getting upset about Cuban people moving to the US. It doesnt affect you and it wouldnt be any of your business anyway! So welcome! Enjoy the banter!
WoundedKnee | Jul 09, 2012, 12:22 PM EDT
Hermittalker--I;m sure I've seen you posting on this site before, but I'm pretty certain you never post about Mass Immigration. SO why are you now hijacking a thread about a murder-suicide by a Polish migrant in Britain in order to give us this tirade of Mass Immigrationist fanaticism? If you want to engage with me on Mass Immigration I'll happily do so, but please, not on this thread, which is about an Irish family's tragedy. And none of your nasty racism, if you don't mind. As to NXS, I've never noticed him/her before on this site, but s/he strikes me as semi-literate, since s/he has misread my posts on just about every element. A racist clown--not worth dealing with.
NXS | Jul 09, 2012, 11:51 AM EDT
well said hermitTalker. Thank god still sensible people are alive in Ireland. My heart goes out to the Irish family and indeed that polish guy who is in a poor state of mind to kill himself and others. I was upset because of the mass immigration cr*p at the very initial comment to this article by woundedknee. hence my ranting reply to these so called human beings...
hermitTalker | Jul 09, 2012, 11:29 AM EDT
The family is from Co Cork, were on a vacation. I did not know until this post that the driver apparently committed suicide, obviously not thinking straight by taking a chance he would survive and of course destroy a young family. The drivel on here about emigration or immigration is totally irrelevant. Europe is making an effort to unify itself after hundreds of years of crazy inter-religious and imperial-dominerring USSR and Nazi war. Of course it has some ironing work to be done, but one can see that the old system of colonialism that enslaved millions and destroyed families was not the best system either. Pray about it, make a contribution to the future. "Light candles instead of cursing the darkness, and adding ignorance to the giant Pot of it that hatred and racism, reliigous bigotry and fear of the foreigner has already brought
NXS | Jul 09, 2012, 10:54 AM EDT
If "Ireland is importing massive numbers of migrants and settlers from those areas of the world and Irish taxpayers are being crucified", dont you think that is Ireland fault to import them than the immigrants fault? People from those countries can only come here only with a visa and invitation as they are non-EU. illegals and Aslym seekers are different, I agree. They are not imported by Ireland, they came here themselves and burden to Irish tax payers. talking about burden on tax payers and illegals, i know of many irish fellowmen and women in the US who were a burden to my tax when I worked in the US legally. RIP.
NXS | Jul 09, 2012, 10:39 AM EDT
awah.. nikki.. i love you too... woundedknee and my beloved nikki, I read the article and understood, nice and clear. i was not suggesting that people should stay in their home country..I am taking the p!ss, by being sarcastic about your ignorance - mass immigration causes road accidents. it is actually bad drivers who causes accidents, that can either be an immigrant or tourist or a native. for all we know, the polish guy could be a tourist in the UK. so, as far as i can see, both the irish family and polish guy were in a foreign country UK, not their own country. He is a foreigner in the UK as much as the irish family vacationing in the UK but the point that I am trying to make is that he is a bad driver, who could be any nationality. if you suggest that polish are only come as immigrants in the UK and Ireland, never "rich" enough to be a tourist, then you are being "bit Irish" if you get my drift. Talking of spineless, I am irish worked in US and other EU countries including our great motherland of Ireland. Never been on Dail, always managed to earn a living and paying taxes. Apart from my full time paid job, I also do voluntary part time work for a NGO (without gettting paid) who helps Irish people who lost their jobs to find their feet and keep it together in tough times. This is where I had to put up with our great politicians who does nothing to help us in the NGO, instead causing trouble. Please go ahead, report me and block me. I will write it from another user name and IP address. Hugs and kisses.... mwah...
SAirish | Jul 09, 2012, 09:43 AM EDT
Both Ireland and the UK were foolish enough to allow unrestricted immigration from the new EU countries of eastern europe starting in 2004. I believe the one other country that allowed this was Sweden. Anyway the rest of Europe refused and for 7 years, both Ireland and the UK were swamped with them. 600,000 people entering the UK from Poland alone. The fact that the other EU countries like France and Germany did not allow them in, made the situation even worse. The economic downturn in both Ireland and the UK resulted in some of them going back. The trouble is that once the UK and Irish Governments agreed to let them in they were pretty powerless to stop it. The seven year period is now up and there is no restriction on these eastern europeans entering the rest of the EU, which hopefully will ease the situation in the UK and Ireland. It has however caused social problems such as insufficient housing, school places and jobs.
nikki1 | Jul 09, 2012, 09:03 AM EDT
Can someone please get rid of that idiot NXS who clearly is not able to read or understand English! Are you trying to say no one should ever leave the country to go on hols and if they do and have an accident that is not their fault then tough they shouldnt have been there to begin with, you better be very careful cos the next time you could on holidays and are maybe driving a car remember my words "what goes around comes around!!" You've been reported so hopefully its a matter of time before you've been thrown out of here, @ woundedknee do me a favour report NXS also and he/she might be thrown off quicker
WoundedKnee | Jul 09, 2012, 09:00 AM EDT
NXS: You might have started by apologizing for misreading my post --and the original article-- so badly. Too bad you don't have that courtesy. In relation to your claim, the last time I was in Ireland, I noticed that Dublin was full of Indians, Chinese, Pakistanis, Arabs and Africans. You appear not to know that such places are not in the EU. Yet Ireland is importing massive numbers of migrants and settlers from those areas of the world. As to your "economics" it is the analysis of a clown. Irish taxpayers are being crucified --it has been calculated at $20k for every man woman and child in the country--in order to pay debts that are not theirs; Ireland was threatened with ruin by the EU if it did not agree to assume these debts. These debts were not incurred by this generation, nor by the next, yet they will be paid by Irish people in the 2020s, 2030s and Goodness knows maybe even into the 2040s. Instead of taking care of the sick, educating their children, cleaning up their dirty cities, the Irish will be pumping money into the EU for decades. The Irish have themselves to blame for accepting this, I will agree with you on that point, but you're no better than anyone else when it comes to spinelessness.
NXS | Jul 09, 2012, 08:01 AM EDT
it is a fact that we all as Irish signed up to, including our politician fools, to be part of EU. i am irish and cant say I am proud. Blessing in disguise, without EU bailout, all our fellow citizens will be begging in streets and our women in the street "doing service" to all those immigrants for few quids, who still managed to hold on to a job and have some money in their pockets. we have ourselves to blame.
WoundedKnee | Jul 09, 2012, 06:49 AM EDT
NXS: You have totally misunderstood the case. The Irish family were not immigrants to Britain, they were on vacation. Did you not even understand the article above? The immigrant was the guy from Poland. If he hadn't been in Britain, the Irish family would be all alive & healthy today. As to SAIrish's post, you're wrong, there IS evidence that drivers from Eastern Europe have a high rate of involvement in fatal accidents in Ireland. People hurt or killed by those drivers would not be hurt or killed if those drivers were not in Ireland. That's a simple statement of fact. The irony is that if someone from Latvia or Poland arrives in Ireland they can, if they wish (many don't wish to, as it helps them avoid tickets) take out an Irish driving license. Contrast that with an American, or an Irish-born friend of mine who calculated that he must have driven nearly half a million miles during the 13 or so years he lived in the US. When he returned to Ireland recently, he was told that not only he wouldn't be automatically issued an Irish licence on the basis of his Georgia permit, but that he'd have to enroll and take a dozen driving lessons before they'd even let him do the test. Truly there are no fools like the fools who run Ireland--it's no wonder the country is in ruin.
NXS | Jul 09, 2012, 05:29 AM EDT
yeah.. seems like lot of Irish mass immigrants in the UK than polish immigrants...
SAirish | Jul 09, 2012, 04:59 AM EDT
There are many eastern europeans living in Ireland and it could have happened there as well. Although there is no evidence that Polish drivers make a habit of deliberately driving into other cars. There are at least a million Irish born people living in mainland UK, which means it has the largest number of Irish born people in the world outside Ireland.
NXS | Jul 09, 2012, 03:24 AM EDT
I agree with Woundedknee. It is another victim of mass immigration. If these family kept themselves to Ireland and not going to UK, they would have been saved their own lives...
SAirish | Jul 09, 2012, 03:00 AM EDT
The Polish driver is as bad as a Muslim suicide bomber. If he wanted to kill himself he should have driven over a cliff.
WoundedKnee | Jul 09, 2012, 02:47 AM EDT
What a sad story. And with a heavy heart I have to point out that family is yet another victim of the madness of Mass Immigration.