It was on this day in 2007 when news emerged that Britain’s former World Rally Champion Colin McRae had been killed along with three fellow passengers in a tragic helicopter accident in West Scotland.

The hugely-popular 39-year-old Scotsman - a qualified pilot - died when crashing his helicopter into a wooded valley close to his family home in Lanark. McRae’s five-year-old son Johnny and two family friends also died in the crash.

Four years later, a subsequent fatal accident inquiry laid much of the blame on McRae himself, finding that he had engaged in low-level flying 'when it was unnecessary and unsafe to do so'.

McRae had become a household name when - driving a Subaru Impreza - he became Britain's first driver to win the World Rally Championship in 1995 at the record young age of just 27 before finishing a runner-up over the next two years.

Ever since his death, Colin McRae memorabilia has been in high demand with one of his test cars - sporting chassis number 001 - becoming the most expensive Subaru ever sold when fetching over £230,000 at a public auction in 2017.

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