A devoted father who sold his BMW car to help cover his rising mortgage bills cost has been tragically killed in a motorbike crash.
Matthew Woodward, 33, worrying about the cost of living, swapped his car for the bike just weeks before he died as it was less expensive to run.
The father-of-one was riding home from work when his bike collided with a car shortly before 5am.
The driver of the car also died in the collision on the A48 road in South Wales near the village of Bonvilston.
Mr Woodward, who leaves behind three-year-old daughter Amelia and fiancée Lauren Goodman, was using the bike having sold his car recently following a sharp rise in the family’s mortgage payments.
Matthew Woodward was killed while on his bike in a road accident in South Wales
The father-of-one swapped his car for a motorbike in order to cover his rising mortgage costs
The HGV driver had finished his shift in the early morning and was commuting home when he died in the fatal collision.
Friend Oscar Jenkins, 33, paid tribute to Mr Woodward, known as ‘Woody’ as they began a fundraising campaign in his memory.
He said: ‘He was talking about the cost of living and how he was thinking of moving away from being a lorry driver and becoming a train driver.
‘A week or two earlier he’d sold his BMW because the mortgage rates had gone up so much.
‘Woody was the most gentle and kind-hearted person and that’s not just me saying it as a good friend.
‘He was very softly spoken and sensitive without a bad bone in his body.’
He said Matthew, who was from Shrewsbury, met Lauren at university and moved to Barry, South Wales, to be near her family.
Mr Woodward moved to be with his fiancée Lauren Goodman in South Wales
He added: ‘But he was always the one who made that push to get together with our group of friends from Shrewsbury whenever possible.’
Oscar said he had last seen Matthew just four days before his death.
He said: ‘His fiancée had by pure chance arranged to have her eyebrows done in the area so he popped in to see us on Monday.
‘It had been my birthday a couple of weeks before that and Woody hadn’t been able to make it so he ordered a curry takeaway, brought four or five beers, and said: ‘This is for missing your birthday.’
‘We sat down and it was lovely. Looking back it’s so incredible that we had that opportunity to see him a final time.’
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