Published: 6:52 pm March 8, 2024
Updated: 11:44 am October 8, 2025
Tragic Motorhome Crash Claims Lives of Mother and Two Children
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A devastating motorhome crash on the A64 westbound between Malton and York resulted in the tragic loss of a mother and two of her children. Shirley Hunt, 44, along with her daughter Ellie, nine, and son Oscar, five, were killed instantly when their vehicle collided with a parked lorry after a tyre explosion.

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The heart-wrenching incident occurred as Craig Hunt was driving his family back home to Greasborough, Rotherham, following a holiday in Whitby in August 2021. The family was travelling in a converted 7.5-tonne DAF commercial van, with the two boys seated in the front cab and Mrs Hunt and Ellie in the living area at the rear.

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