{"id":407964,"date":"2025-09-08T14:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/407964\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T14:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:04:13","slug":"family-remembers-magical-woman-who-died-in-crash-near-exeter-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/407964\/","title":{"rendered":"Family remembers magical woman who died in crash near Exeter Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;We love you to the moon and back, Emily&#8217;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0_Emily.png\" alt=\"Emily Witts\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Emily Witts, who died in a car crash on the A30 near Exeter Airport(Image: Devon and Cornwall Police)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The family of a woman who died tragically in a car crash near Exeter Airport have paid tribute to &#8220;the most wonderful person&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Emily Witts, 31, died at the scene of collision on the A30 westbound slip road for <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.devonlive.com\/all-about\/exeter\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Exeter<\/a> Airport at Clyst <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.devonlive.com\/all-about\/honiton\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Honiton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Emergency services were called to the crash at around 12.05pm on Sunday, August 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A Blue BMW 5 Series Saloon was involved in the crash. The driver was taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Emily\u2019s family said: \u201cOn 3 August we lost our lovely Emily in such a tragic way we are struggling to cope with the sudden and massive loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cShe was the kindest soul, taken from us way too soon. Emily was the sunshine in our lives and made the world a better place with her sparkle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cIf Emily loved you then you certainly knew about it, she would help anyone that needed it, anytime, anywhere. She rescued plants, cats and fish that were dying or unwell, nursing them back to health and never giving up on any living thing that she welcomed into her home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cShe cared for everyone, and Emily was magic, mystical and so, so strong, brave, kind and genuine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cShe was the most wonderful person we had, and she was the glue that held people together, the hole in our lives is massive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cEmily is so dearly missed, we love you to the moon and back Emily\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;We love you to the moon and back, Emily&#8217;Emily Witts, who died in a car crash on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[140528,51,70954,140527,8594,9731,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-407964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-a30","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-devon-and-cornwall-police","11":"tag-exeter-international-airport","12":"tag-plymouth","13":"tag-traffic-travel","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115169058109565426","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}