Mother's Day tragedy: Mum-of-two, a hospital nurse, dies in car crash after finishing 12-hour night shift
A 35-year-old, woman was killed in a car crash just after she had finished her 12-hour night shift as a hospital nurse on Mother's Day. Reports state that the woman, a mother-of-two, may have fallen asleep at the wheel after an exhaustive shift on March 11.
Corina Diaconu had finished work at Yeovil Hospital in Somerset on Mother's Day morning and was heading home to Bournemouth, Dorset, 50 miles away when the incident occurred, according to the Daily Mail.
Reports state that Diaconu's car failed to take a bend and veered right into a vehicle coming from the other direction at 8:30 in the morning. The victim sustained multiple injuries from the impact and was reportedly killed on the spot. Diaconu is now survived by her two children, son (2) and a daughter (14).