A heartbroken father had his 'world collapse' after his son was killed by a drunk festival-goer in a converted campervan.
Terry Keane was at work when he received the phone call every parent dreads.
His son, Joe Keane, had been involved in a 'serious accident', the person on the other end of the line told him.
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Joe, a law graduate from Wigan, had been driving to Harrogate in July 2018 with his girlfriend after a surprise trip away to celebrate his 28th birthday.
But the trip turned to tragedy when they encountered a campervan being driving on the wrong side of the road.
The driver, Adam Kershaw, then 29, had been on his way to Beat-Herder Festival in the Ribble Valley and was was three times over the limit, Yorkshire Live reports.
He had consumed drugs “all night” before getting behind the wheel of his modified camper van and colliding with the couple’s Peugeot 107.
Kershaw, then of Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire, pleaded guilty to the offence and was later jailed for nine years for causing death by dangerous driving at Bradford Crown Court.
In the moments that followed the crash, Terry said he tried desperately to find out if his son was still alive only to be told by a nurse 20 minutes later that he had sadly passed away.
Terry, from Billinge, said: “I received the call. It was my son’s girlfriend’s phone. When I picked up the phone, it wasn’t Alyssa on the other end, it was a man, who was upset.
"I asked what was wrong. Eventually Alyssa came on the phone and said her and Joe had been involved in a serious accident. I kept asking, how is Joe? How is Joe?
“She told me that he still had a pulse. So I waited for 20 minutes, and said I would go to the hospital and could she find out where the hospital was that he would be?
"I waited at work, and then 20 minutes later, my phone rang, and it was a lady this time on the phone, who I didn’t know.
“She told me: 'I’m sorry Mr Keane, unfortunately, your son has died'. She was a nurse and she’d tried her best to save Joe, and she couldn’t.”
Terry said that his “sensitive, funny” son had “the world at his feet”.
"He was qualified in law. He was doing well in his job, he was saving up to get married to his girlfriend," Terry said.
“Our lives will never be the same again. We miss him everyday.”
