Marie Laurie was thrown out of the window of a cab after attending her son's wedding, which was supposed to be one of the happiest events in the family calendar.
The 57-year-old, from Easterhouse, Glasgow, had been travelling home with her husband when drink driver Steven Bennie smashed into the cab she was in and killed her.
It was during breakfast the next day that son Martin, who was still on a high after his wedding, had his world turned upside down - the Daily Record reports.
Martin, 44, recalled the events in November 2015: “Our wedding day was amazing but it went so quickly I can’t even remember the last thing I said to my mum. Michelle and I had no idea what had happened until the next day as Michelle’s bag had been mixed up with someone else’s.
“We were coming down for breakfast when my cousin gave Michelle back her bag and said her phone hadn’t stopped ringing.
“Moments before I’d been on a high. It was the day after my wedding and I was with my new wife.
“Then Michelle handed me a phone and it was my uncle Robert, who said to me, ‘Your mum has been in an accident and she’s gone.’
“Emotion took over. It was the world’s greatest high to the worst low. It was the last thing we ever expected.”
Mum-of-two Marie and husband Jamie, 56, had posed for a picture before they left the wedding at the Lochside Hotel in Cumnock, Ayrshire, in a minibus. They were dropped off in the east side of Glasgow and they then hailed a taxi to take them home.
The cab was hit just after Marie entered it.
Emergency services attended but Marie had died after she was thrown out of the vehicle.
Jamie was seriously hurt and was left devastated by the sudden loss of his wife of six years.
Drink driver Bennie, who had no licence and was uninsured, was driving at speeds of up to 80mph and had been trying to evade police.
The 24-year-old pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and was jailed for seven years and six months in October 2016.
Martin said: “Bennie has ruined his own life and that of not only his family but ours.
“When it came out in court that he had driven at 80mph , we all gasped.
“He hung his head, as he should have, in shame.”
The couple - who live in Stewarton, Ayrshire with their six-year-old daughter Mollie - will celebrate their fourth wedding anniversary next week. But it is marred by the anniversary of Marie's death.
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