Family is devastated after M6 crash leaves two dead

Aug 9 2007 by Liza Williams, Liverpool Daily Post

Irene Trevorrow, on the right, who was killed in a car crash on the M6

TWO Merseyside women killed in a road accident on the M6 in Cumbria spent their lives working to raise money for Liverpool-based charities.

Jacqueline and Irene Trevorrow (pictured right) were killed after the car they were travelling in overturned on the northbound carriageway of the motorway and crashed into the central reservation.

The pair were travelling with their family to the home of Irene’s daughter when their Mitsubishi people carrier crashed near Killington Lake Services on Tuesday night.

Irene, a former senior fundraiser for the Liverpool-based Roy Castle Foundation, died at the scene along with daughter-in-law Jacqueline, who was driving.

Seven people were in the car at the time of the crash, all family members, including Irene’s husband and daughter, Jacqueline’s husband, her 10- year-old son and her 11-year-old daughter.

Jacqueline’s daughter was not injured in the accident, while the other passengers were taken to the Royal Lancaster Infirmary and are described as being in a “serious but stable” condition.

Irene, 63, lived at Duddingston Avenue, in Crosby, while Jacqueline, 41, lived at Barn Croft Place, also in Crosby.

A spokesperson for the family said: “Our entire family and friends are devastated at losing Irene and Jackie.

“Our hearts are broken and the pain we feel is hard to put into words. Everyone involved in the accident is being comforted by a close and loving family, who Irene and Jackie were at the heart of.

“Both Irene and Jackie were not only our foundation, but because of all their hard work with charities like the Roy Castle Foundation, they will be very missed. Both beautiful ladies were everybody's friend.”

Barbara Dagnall, a friend and neighbour in Duddingston Avenue for more than 40 years, told how Irene was an active member of a local amateur dramatic society and a keen amateur gardener.

Mrs Dagnall, 65, said: “Irene was a wonderful vivacious woman who was a real whirlwind. She never rested for a second and she was always working for others.

“She was an immensely talented woman – there were few things she could not turn her hand to.

“Irene helped to stage amateur dramatic shows with the Dorian Players in the local civic hall.

“She not only wrote and acted in some the productions but designed and made the costumes.

“She had the knack of getting everyone involved, not just in drama but street parties and charity fund-raising of all kinds.

“Her gifts as a gardener were famous. She had real green fingers and while she was doing all this she kept her home looking like a palace.

“Irene was a real dynamo and she will be sorely missed.

“Every in this street has grown-up calling her 'Auntie Irene' and she has touched tens of thousands of lives in her time. If there was a saint on earth, it was her”.