article_snippet.sent: Tracy Walters, 48, (right) died after Ian Walters veered off the M1 motorway last year .
article_snippet.sent: Walters, who also worked as a driving test examiner, veered off the M1 on the way back from an unsuccessful ‘make or break’ trip with his wife, Leicester Crown Court has heard.
article_snippet.sent: Mrs Walters, a keen horse rider, was flown to hospital following the collision in Markfield, Leicester, but died two days later from Walters injuries .
article_snippet.sent: Walters also texted a relative of one of Walters sons just an hour before the crash to say:
article_snippet.sent: But Walters is claiming that at the time of the crash Walters had been taking antidepressants which sometimes made Walters drowsy.
article_snippet.sent: Walters told the court that Walters could recall two times when Walters had fallen asleep at the wheel, the last of which was on a motorway in 2002.
article_snippet.sent: Walters said Walters had also had three fainting episodes in the two years prior to the crash.
highlights_snippet.sent: Tracy Walters, 48, and husband Ian, 51, had been on a 'make or break trip'
  