A police watchdog has cleared officers of any wrongdoing after a teenage traveller couple they chased for running a red light died in a fireball crash in west London.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct had been investigating after Patrick McDonagh, 19, and his pregnant wife Shauna, 18, were killed when their silver Renault Mégane hit a coach and burst into flames on the A40 Acton in February 2019.
Police told an inquest they had originally pulled the car over for jumping a red light. However, when an officer approached the vehicle ‘to make sure everything was okay’, it drove off at speed, culminating in the fatal crash.
A newlywed teenage couple were caught on camera moments before they died in a fireball crash while fleeing from police on the wrong side of a busy duel carriageway in west London.
Patrick McDonagh, 19, and his pregnant wife Shauna, 18, were killed when their silver Renault Mégane hit a coach and burst into flames on the A40 Acton in February 2019.
Shauna had been eight months pregnant with their unborn daughter Sienna Marie, who was due to be born just four days later on Valentine s Day.
Footage released today captures the Renault as it swerves onto the wrong side of the A40 towards the end of the 89mph chase, and collides with an oncoming coach.
Patrick and Shauna McDonagh were killed when their car was driven the wrong way down the A40 dual carriageway near Acton in west London in February 2019, the hearing was told.