The breaking news from Sweden is that police believe the crash, which claimed the lives of Viola Beach members Tom Lowe, Kris Leonard, River Reeves and Jack Dakin and their your manager Craig Tarry, may have been caused deliberately by the driver of the car they were travelling in.
After swerving on to the hard shoulder and crashing through barriers, the vehicle plummeted through a gap on a motorway river bridge, which had been raised to let a boat through.
“As far as I can see, most of the band had already been killed up there on the bridge," says Lars Berglund, the police officer leading the investigation. "It looks like the driver was acting intentionally.”
The traffic incident, which occurred on February 13, has been re-created by Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, which quotes another police source as saying "it's not natural to carry on driving if there's a stop sign, parked cars and blinking red lights."
In the week prior to the crash, the English outfit had supported Blossoms in the Dublin Academy.