Mum who killed two children in drink-drive motorway crash weeps as she's jailed

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A mum who killed two of her children in a horror drink-drive motorway crash has wept as she was caged for four years.Boozed-up Mary McCann was travelling on the M1 northbound between junctions 14 and 15 at around 11.10pm on August 9, 2021, when she into a white Scania HGV.

Her two kids, Lilly McCann, four, and Smaller, ten, died at the scene after sustaining fatal injuries, reports the Mirror. McCann, 35, was driving back from a party in London when the crash happened, a family member previously claimed.A third person was not serious injured, as well as the lorry driver.Judge Francis Sheridan, sitting at Aylesbury Crown Court, heard the 35-year-old was over the drink-drive limit at the time of the incident when she drifted across into a lane behind the lorry and smashed into it.Little Lilly was catapulted out of the car after McCann had not put seatbelts on her children.

McCann earlier admitted two counts of causing death by careless driving while unfit through drink.Judge Sheridan told McCann, who sobbed as she watched on over the video link, that she would carry the cross of her actions for the rest of her life.He said: "It is disgraceful that you as a mother could drive a car with three young children in it while over the drink-drive limit."Stephen Shay, prosecuting, said: "Ms McCann was driving three children in a Vauxhall Astra car when at 11.12pm she collided with the rear of a lorry driven by Simon Denton."Tragically, two of her children were killed."McCann was in lane one, while the lorry was in lane two, the court was told.Her car drifted into lane two and, in a bid to avoid the lorry, she crashed into it - sending her car spinning.Mr Shay told the court McCann was driving at 72mph in a 60 zone, with Lilly and