Mum reveals heartbreaking last text message she sent her daughter, 22, just 60 seconds before fatal smash
A MUM has revealed her heartbreaking final words to her daughter just 60 seconds before she was killed in a horror crash.
Claudia Forden, 22, was travelling in Jack Caddick’s Mercedes when he lost control on a bend and smashed into another car while speeding.
The nursery worker sadly couldn’t be saved and was declared dead after suffering “severe abdominal injuries”.
Her mum Michelle Forden has revealed how she spoke to Claudia just one minute before the horror unfolded.
Tragically, the signal was poor so Michelle had to cancel the phonecall and instead sent a text reading “have fun and stay safe”, which was never opened.
Reading a victim impact statement at Liverpool Crown Court, where Caddick was jailed for eight years, she said: “We told her we loved her and I buttoned the call.
“I will never know if she heard us. We never got to see her again after we returned from our holiday.
“I never got to say goodbye. She died alone. I had already given her my last hug, I would never have let go if I had known.”
The mum was travelling back from holiday and “couldn’t wait to see the kids” when her daughter was killed.
She tragically revealed how an outfit Claudia had laid out for a friend’s birthday that night still remains on her bed.
Michelle also lashed out at Caddick after he asked if he could attend Claudia’s funeral.
She added: “Why he thought it was acceptable to be there and why he thought we would want him in company repulses me.
“How do you have such a total disregard for my daughter’s life?”
The court heard Caddick had only picked Claudia and his girlfriend up just minutes before the horror unfolded in August 2021.
The group were on their way to Starbucks when he began speeding at 68mph in a 30mph zone while approaching a bend.
Caddick then veered into the wrong lane while trying to take the corner and smashed “almost head on” into David Hockey.
The other driver had “no chance to brake or swerve” and was also left with serious injuries, including broken ribs.
Caddick, who appeared in a wheelchair in the dock, suffered a “mild traumatic brain injury” and breaks to both his heels, while his girlfriend was seriously injured on what was her 21st birthday.
The driver admitted two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and one of causing death by dangerous driving.
As well as a jail sentence, he has been banned from driving for eight years and eight months.