The Telegraph reports that Paddy and Jane Ashdown were involved in a road accident yesterday afternoon on the A356 near Crewkerne. A Vauxhall Corsa clipped their car, and the driver of the Corsa, Mark Hurford, sadly died at the scene.
Paddy Ashdown said:
We were coming back from the station and my wife was driving me home. We were about a mile outside Crewkerne and a car came around the corner.
My wife was in the driver’s seat and miraculously and thankfully she was unhurt. However, the young man was dead by the time I reached him.
We are very shaken by it, but of course very concerned for the young man’s family and wife. I have been in touch with his wife and we are devastated for them and send them our prayers and condolences.
* Mary Reid is a contributing editor on Lib Dem Voice. She was a councillor in Kingston upon Thames, where she is still very active with the local party, and is the Hon President of Kingston Lib Dems.
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It must have been a real shock I wish you both well.