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Driver describes horror crash

A young teacher cheated death in a horrific head-on collision with a French holidaymaker which killed her colleague.

Chemistry teacher Elizabeth Wheeler, 31, from Edinburgh, told the High Court in Inverness yesterday how she desperately swerved her red Peugeot to avoid a camper van which came round a bend on the same side of the road. But the van ploughed into her car, sending it somersaulting along the A9 a few miles south of Thurso, Caithness, on August 16 last year.

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