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Mother killed in horror smash

Monday 11 August 1997 23:02 BST
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Two women died and a baby was critically hurt yesterday when a car swerved off the road and rammed a family walking with a pushchair.

The 86-year-old woman driver probably had a heart attack and died before crashing into mother Jill Wilson, 34, who was with her two young children in Fleet, Hampshire, police said. Four-month-old Anthony Wilson was thrown out of his buggy but the car missed his sister Victoria, aged two. The vehicle ploughed on for 500 yards, carrying Mrs Wilson on its bonnet, before coming to a halt when it hit another vehicle, whose driver was unhurt by the impact. The car driver was named as Winifred Fletcher, of Fleet.

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