Mum, 26, Died while Racing with a Man at 140MPH on her Birthday in A10 Cambridge

Ariola Hoxhaj, 26, a mother, died in a high-speed crash on her birthday had borrowed a friend’s car to pick up her daughter on on A10 Cambridge.

Officers from the Metropolitan Police were called last night (Monday, November 12) at around 11.55pm to reports of a car that had been in a collision with a tree on the A10 southbound carriageway in Enfield.



The 26-year-old woman, the driver, police say, she died at the scene. She was racing with a man who was doing 166MPH and she was doing 140MPH.



Paramedics from the London Ambulance Service, London Air Ambulance and fire crews from the London's Fire Brigade.

A off duty fireman saw it happen. The man is now been arrested for dangerous driving.  Police are investigating the possibility they were racing each other.

The driver of the second car was being questioned today on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. 

Today Ms Hoxhaj’s family claimed she had not been speeding, and had been on her way to pick up her six-year-old daughter Ria.

She had borrowed a friend’s car to pick up her daughter from her sister and then come home. She was on the way when it happened, her daughter was not in the car at the time of crash.

The crash happened at 11.55pm on Monday on the southbound carriageway of Great Cambridge Road and today it was 26th birthday of Ariola Hoxhaj.

Enquiries are continuing. Detective Sergeant Jose-Paulo Qureshi said other people would have seen the events and appealed for information.