THIS is the terrifying moment a "selfish" driver speeds into oncoming M25 traffic before killing a "beautiful" mum-of-eight. Horrifying footage shows Barancan Nurcin , 22, flying down the wrong side of the motorway while he swerves around cars. He recklessly takes an emergency access road off the main carriageway before barreling through oncoming traffic to evade cops.
The driver fails to brake as he comes within a hair's breadth of smashing into other vehicles. Zoe was the heart of our blended family. She was a role model to everyone and the centre of our family Hertfordshire Constabulary captured the alarming chase, at around 3.
40am on February 4, in which Nurcin devastatingly killed two people. The shamed driver was sentenced to 18 years in jail after being convicted of death by dangerous driving. Nurcin had also been behind the wheel without a license after it was stripped from him in 2021 for drug driving.
It is the longest sentence to have been given for the charge. He sparked the fatal chase after cops were alerted to a stolen Citroen Dispatch van on the M1, and the 22-year-old refused to pull over twice for different patrols. Tragedy struck when Nurcin smashed the van into a silver DFSK 580 Glory.
Passenger Zoe Hawes was on her way to Luton Airport to celebrate her 40th birthday. The 39-year-old died at the scene, while her husband was placed in a medically induced coma. He suffered severe injuries to his face, broke bones throughout his body and bleeding on the brain.
