Mother-of-one dies after driving wrong way down M4 motorway

Staff writer
Traffic building on the M4 towards central London as London Underground workers launched a 24-hour strike which will cripple Tube services and cause travel chaos for millions of passengers.
Traffic building on the M4 towards central London as London Underground workers launched a 24-hour strike which will cripple Tube services and cause travel chaos for millions of passengers.

A motorist has died after performing a U-turn to drive the wrong way down a busy motorway. An inquest heard that Anouska Paterson, 42, was on her way to a party before making the fatal manoeuvre.

Bank worker Paterson pulled her Audi A3 onto the hard shoulder between junctions 16 and 17 of the M4 motorway. She then turned her car around and began driving down the road – in the wrong direction of the fast lane.

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