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A man deliberately crashed his car off the M1 motorway to kill his wife who wanted a divorce, a court heard.
At the opening of Ian Walters' trial, the jury was shown CCTV footage of the final seconds before the crash that left his wife Tracy fatally injured.
Mr Walters, 51, denies murdering his wife, who died in hospital after the crash in Leicestershire, in March 2014.
On the day of the crash, on 21 March 2014, the pair had been travelling home with their two dogs after cutting short a holiday in the Yorkshire Dales, the jury was told.
Footage of four seconds before the crash showed the car travelling at 79mph, apparently with no obstructions in the road.
Mr Miskin said: "He must have foreseen that really serious injury or death would result from this crash.
"While obviously he risked his own life and limb, he also intended to cause really serious bodily injury to his wife."
He said Mrs Walters had been texting her son and in her last message wrote of her husband: "He's driving and volatile... I need him arrested when we get home."
Mr Miskin said it is this accumulation of texts that "acted as a trigger for his conduct."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-32132616