Justyne Hulboj was 27 years old and was walking with her 4-year-old daughter Lena to nursery. It was an ordinary morning on Scott Hall Road in Leeds.
An Audi TTRS veered off the road without warning and hit them head-on. The car continued out of control until it crashed into the wall of a Jaguar dealership in the Sheepscar area. Mother and daughter died at the scene, almost instantly. The driver was hospitalized with serious injuries and was arrested and held in police custody as the investigation continues. He is believed to have been speeding.
The Polish community in the United Kingdom, the family’s country of origin, organized a campaign to repatriate the bodies. They raised more than 21,000 pounds in just a few days. West Yorkshire Police continue to seek witnesses and camera footage that could reconstruct the exact seconds in which two lives were extinguished on the most routine journey of all.