This is the moment an HGV driver tried to alert a mum to the danger she and others were in moments before she caused a fatal crash on the M57.
The driver repeatedly sounded his horn after Ann Marie Crook narrowly missed the vehicle as she drove the wrong way down the slip road onto the motorway.
Moments later she hit the Honda Jazz of retired headteacher Paula Kingdon, killing the 64-year-old.
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The tragic crash marked the end of five miles of driving in which Crook repeatedly put lives on the line as she reached speeds of almost 100mph and drove on the wrong side of the road.
The 43-year-old passed through Windle Island on the East Lancashire Road in St Helens at a speed of between 92mph and 94mph. The limit on the section where she hit that speed was 40mph.
As she approached Kirkby she crossed onto the wrong side of the road at the Moorgate Road South junction before turning into oncoming traffic on the M57 slip road - where she passed the HGV.
Chris Hopkins, prosecuting, detailed the accounts of witnesses who saw Crook in the build up to the crash, which took place at around 9.30am on October 31, 2019.
Crook pulled up alongside one driver at the Moorgate Road South junction, her Renault Clio in the lane to turn right off the East Lancashire Road.
Mr Hopkins said he told police : "Suddenly he became aware of the defendant's car... to his disbelief she was level with him but on the other side of the crash barrier... he watched in horror as the defendant crossed the two eastbound lanes and entered the exit slip on the M57."
According to another witness, earlier on in her journey: "He could see her hands on the steering wheel while she was looking forward and appeared to be driving in a determined manner."
One of the drivers she approached on the M57 recalled: "The defendant appeared to pick a lane and stick with it. There was no braking. The defendant drove straight and with purpose."
The court heard the vehicle in front of Ms Kingdon swerved to avoid Crook, leaving the much-loved former teacher, who had been in Kirkby to care for her stepdad, no time to react.
Mr Hopkins said Crook's intentions remained unclear, but added: "All of the evidence indicates this was a deliberate act and the only sensible conclusion that can be drawn is that the defendant was trying to harm herself."
Ms Kingdon and Crook both had to be cut out of their vehicles and taken to Aintree Hospital.
Crook, of Cheviot Avenue in St Helens, spent time in a critical condition.
The mum-of-two told police she had no recollection of the incident and suggested she "had taken a wrong turn and panicked".
Mr Hopkins said: "The fact that that explanation is maintained by the defendant is something which has caused great distress to family members of the victim."
A letter written to Judge Garrett Byrne by Crook ended with her claiming she had "no explanation" for her actions.
Highlighting the evidence that Crook made no attempt to avoid a crash, he concluded it was not "a case of taking a wrong turn and then panicking, it was a deliberate course of conduct".
The judge added that, if it had been Crook's intention to harm herself, it was "a profoundly selfish one because you were prepared to injure or kill others" in achieving that goal.
Crook admitted one count of causing death by dangerous driving and was sentenced to four years and eight months.
She was disqualified from driving for three years after her release.
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