BYE MUMMY; Brave daughter at crash funeral on hospital bed.

Byline: BY NAOMI McELROY

THESE are the heartbreaking scenes as Caroline Cox's daughter Shona was carried to her mum's funeral on a hospital bed.

Shona, 13, arrived by ambulance at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Mullingar, Co Westmeath - the church where her parents married.

Too weak to stand, the brave teen insisted she had to be there to say goodbye to her mum.

Shona and her brother Sean, 15, still visibly bear the wounds of the crash that took their mother's life on Monday and put her four children in hospital.

Fr Michael Kilmartin admitted the terrible tragedy made him question his belief in God.

He said: "Sometimes people ask why God allowed this to happen.

"Sometimes I wonder myself.

One thing that should never be said when someone dies is that it is the will of God.

"Never do we know enough to say that. Consolation lies in knowing that it was not the will of God that Caroline would die.

"When Caroline's jeep skidded, I've no doubt God's was the first of all hearts to break."

Sean wore the necklace Caroline, 32, gave him on his birthday - the day she died.

Grief-stricken husband John tried to comfort the couple's four children, holding baby JJ, just seven months, and three-year-old Courtney.

Caroline was killed when her 4x4 overturned at Collinstown, Co Westmeath, as she made the morning run to Skerries Cross, where her two teenagers were to get the bus to school.

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FAMILY'S FAREWELL Shona Cox and her dad John, rear with glasses, watch the as coffin of Caroline, inset, leaves church in Mullingar yesterday Pictures: JAMES FLYNN/APX; INJURED Sean