A British mother-of-10 killed in a horror crash in northern France has today been pictured for the first time.
Miriam Posen was travelling with six of her family members when it was involved in a three-vehicle crash on a motorway south of Lens.
Her husband and two of her children are understood to be recovering ‘well’ after the accident which also claimed the lives of a 75-year-old woman and a 45-year-old man.
Mrs Posen, a member of the strict orthodox Jewish community from Stamford Hill, North London, was travelling in a van at the start of a holiday when the tragedy unfolded.
The photo of 50-year-old Mrs Posen, posing with her eldest son Izzy, was taken in 2017 before he became estranged from his family after he broke from the closed world of Ultra-Orthodox Judaism to study English and get a degree in physics at university.
He captioned it: ‘With my beautiful mother’.
Mother-of-ten Miriam Posen, who tragically passed away in a car crash in France, has been pictured for the first time with her eldest son Izzy
The horror smash took place at around 6pm on Sunday on a motorway south of Lens
On Monday, Izzy wrote on social media: ‘My mother sadly passed away yesterday in tragic circumstances.
‘She was young and healthy and full of the spirit of life. I loved her so much.’
Friends and family of Mrs Posen are still coming to terms with her death which has shocked the Jewish community around her home in Stamford Hill.
One neighbour said: ‘We really can’t believe that Miriam has gone.
‘She was devoted to her children. It is all so upsetting.’
Meanwhile, the rest of the family involved in the horror smash are now ‘out of danger’, it emerged today.
Mrs Posen’s husband Shalom Pinchos Posen and five other members of the family are ‘recovering well,’ according to a local emergency services source.
‘All were travelling in a minivan when the accident happened, and three were rushed to intensive care,’ the source said.
‘Some of these lives were considered to be in danger at first, but this is no longer the case – they are all out of intensive care.’
The British person worst injured, beyond Mrs Posen, was a 19-year-old girl, who on Tuesday remained in hospital in Cambrai.
Another 16-year-old female, and Mr Posen, were originally in intensive care too, while three children aged 13, 11 and eight had injuries which were not considered life threatening.
Emergency services are pictured at the scene of the crash on Sunday evening
There were four people in a second vehicle, including an unidentified 75-year-old woman and a 45-year-old man, both of whom died after suffering cardiac arrests.
The other two passengers in the second car – a 14-year-old boy and a 79-year-old man – remain in hospital in Lille, after being transported there by helicopter.
The emergency services source said the teenager ‘remained in a critical condition.’
A third car involved was being driven by a woman in her 30s, but she suffered only light injuries, along with three children aged six, eight and nine.
A spokesman for the Arras prosecutor’s office, which is investigating the crash, said alcohol and toxicology tests had been performed, without revealing any results.
He said it was ‘way too early’ to say exactly what caused the accident, and that ‘numerous witnesses’ were being spoken to.
The accident happened in good light at about 6pm on Sunday, when the driver of one of the vehicles is thought to have lost control and passed on to the opposite carriageway, hitting another vehicle head on.
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