I watched my partner and son take their last breaths after a crash just yards from our driveway... now I could end up homeless

It began like any other day. At 7.30am on October 13, Ellie Munro kissed goodbye to her 21-year-old son Finn and her partner, Paul Elliott, as they left for work together.Neither of them would ever come home.As, just yards from their front door in Dinmore, Herefordshire, the two men would be killed when a car collided with them at the driveway.Ellie, 45, watched her blue-eyed son take his final breath. Moments later, she watched her partner die too.In an instant, her world was shattered.Now, a month on, she is not only grappling with unimaginable grief but the claimed prospect of losing the home she shared with 46-year-old Paul.Despite building a life together and buying the property two years ago, Ellie says she faces an uncertain future because she is not legally recognised as Paul's next of kin. Ellie Munro is pictured with her partner of three-and-a-half years Paul Elliott Finn Munro (pictured) was killed aged 21 after being involved in a car crash mere metres away from his mother's front doorUnsure where she and her 16-year-old daughter Martha will go, friends have launched a GoFundMe to raise funds for their future. That morning began entirely ordinarily. Finn stopped by for a coffee with his stepfather and boss, Paul, before the pair headed off to a carpentry job together. Not long afterwards, Ellie received the last message she would ever get from her partner. He told her he missed her and couldn't wait for the trip they had planned together.Just hours later, at around 4pm, disaster struck.'I just heard a massive bang. I looked out of the front window and saw this purple car smashed outside my drive,' Ellie tells the Daily Mail. 'I ran out with Martha. I could see a lorry and another car. It took me a while to realise it was Paul's car. I ran around and just screamed.'Ellie watched in horror as her partner of almost four years, Paul, and her son lay unconscious amid the wreckage. 'I just saw Paul unconscious,' she describes. 'I ran around the car and saw Finn's face was pink and perfect. I then watched as he took his last breath. It is understood the crash happened when the man attempted to overtake Paul as he turned into his driveway, but was forced to slow down because of an oncoming lorry 'I just screamed, "That's my f****** son".' The collision involved a Vauxhall Astra, a Citroen C3 Picasso and a DAF lorry. West Mercia Police said a 59-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of causing death by careless driving while unfit through drink or drugs. He has since been released on bail while enquiries continue. It is understood the crash happened when the man attempted to overtake Paul as he turned into his driveway, but was forced to slow down because of an oncoming lorry.Ellie is now campaigning for a speed limit on the A49, which she argues is dangerously unsafe. The mother-of-three recalls being in a 'blur' as neighbours pulled her away from the scene and sat her and Martha on a bend in the road. 'I remember sitting next to this guy,' Ellie says. 'It then turned out it was the guy who killed him. 'They didn't take their bodies for hours. They died at 4pm and didn't take their bodies away until midnight.' Despite building a life together and buying the property around two years ago, Ellie faces eviction because she is not legally recognised as Paul's next of kin Although she helped build a life there, she is not considered Paul's next of kin. That status instead belongs to his two young children from previous relationships.Now she claims she faces losing the house they bought together in July 2025. Ellie paid the deposit and agreed to cover the household bills, she said, while Paul took out the mortgage in his sole name as they planned their future.But because they were unmarried, had lived together for less than two years and the mortgage was solely in Paul's name, intestacy laws leave Ellie with no automatic right to remain in the property.As a result, she says she and Martha could lose their home while still coming to terms with the deaths of Finn and Paul.Paul's family have denied claims that Ellie is being forced out of the property and says she has an agreement in place. 'Money doesn't bother me,' Ellie says. 'I am more concerned about having a roof over my daughter's head. I don't want anything. But I will be made homeless.'I had to witness my son and partner die. I have nothing left to give anymore.' Unable to work because of a spinal injury, Ellie says she does not know where she will go as she waits for the claimed imminent sale of the house, from which she says she is entitled to half the proceeds. Asked what Paul would make of the situation, she answers: 'He would be absolutely rolling and absolutely raging. Finn was just weeks away from celebrating his 22nd birthday when he was killed 'He would never want to see us out of a home. He was a fantastic father not only to his own children, but to mine too.''He adored them all,' Ellie continues. 'His children were always his priority. He worked his backside off for them, never missed a payment and wanted them as much as possible during the holidays.'But he was the same with my children. If they needed something, he'd just do it. He never boasted about it or even told me. I'd find out afterwards from the kids.'Paul's sister set up a separate GoFundMe, fundraising to provide financial support to his three children 'who now face growing up without their dad'.Ellie described Paul as becoming much more than a stepfather to Finn after taking him on in his carpentry business a year and a half before the crash.'Paul brought so much into Finn's life by giving him a job and training him,' she says.'He became completely committed and turned into a different man. He never used to be committed to anything, but suddenly he couldn't wait to get to work in the mornings.'Even with the early starts and getting buses across Herefordshire, he was dedicated. He found something he genuinely loved.'The pair quickly became inseparable.'Paul and Finn were best friends,' Ellie says. 'You'd ask Paul who he was going out with and he'd say, "Your son".'They had the most beautiful friendship. They used to wind each other up all the time and argue about money, but they absolutely adored one another.'Remembering Finn, Ellie smiles through her grief.'He was so funny. He had his own little way about him,' she says.'We called him the middle dribble because he was the middle child, and he absolutely hated it.'He just made us all laugh. The things he came out with were ridiculous. He once told me tuna couldn't be fish because it came in a tin.'Finn was just weeks away from celebrating his 22nd birthday when he was killed.'He'd just got his life together,' Ellie says.'He'd met the most beautiful girl and they had a plan. It was marriage eventually. They were each other's person.'Back at home, the silence left behind by the deaths of both men has been overwhelming.'Everything's very silent now,' Ellie says.'I don't know how to navigate the grief. I don't know how to miss them because I still don't believe they're gone.'What I care about now is my daughter. She's been incredible through all of this.'As concerns are raised about keeping a roof over their heads, Ellie says her focus remains on honouring the memory of the two men she lost.'It's about my beautiful partner and my beautiful blue-eyed boy,' she says.'That's all it's about.'