{"id":441963,"date":"2026-02-23T23:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/441963\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T23:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:07:08","slug":"family-mourns-portsmouth-mother-and-daughter-who-died-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/441963\/","title":{"rendered":"Family mourns Portsmouth mother and daughter who died in crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A family has said it is mourning &#8220;the most beautiful two souls you could ever meet&#8221; after a mother and daughter died in a crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mary Michelle Devine, known as Michelle, and her seven-year-old daughter Theia, both from Portsmouth, were in a red Ford Fiesta that left the A3, just south of the Hindhead Tunnel in Hampshire at about 10:00 GMT on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cz9qk3kpx80o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were pronounced dead at the scene<\/a> and Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary has appealed for witnesses or anyone with dashcam footage to come forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a tribute their family said: &#8220;They both had so much personality and so many loved ones, our hearts are broken.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A family has said it is mourning &#8220;the most beautiful two souls you could ever meet&#8221; after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-441963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}