Killer lorry driver who ploughed truck into mum-to-be nurse jailed

A LORRY driver who killed a heavily pregnant nurse in a horror crash has been jailed for more than two-and-a-half years. Trevor Norgate was driving an HGV when it veered off the M8 motorway and into the hard shoulder [1] where Evelyn Brown, 41, had stopped her car.

Trucker Trevor Guy Norgate at Glasgow High Court where pled guilty to killing Evelyn Brown who was heavily pregnant on the M8 Motorway at Hermiston Gate, she was stopped on the hard shoulder when Norgate came along in his Tesco Truck and drifted onto the lane where he struck the back of her car, he offered no explanation as to why he failed to observe her and why he was distracted

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Truck driver Trevor Norgate outside courtCredit: Credit: Mike Gibbons

Pic from gofundme of Eve (Evelyn) Brown, who was killed in a crash with a lorry the week before Christmas

Evelyn was expecting her third child when she was killedCredit: Credit: Gofundme

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Norgate was handed two-and-a-half years behind bars at the High Court in EdinburghCredit: credit: alamy

Evelyn was 34 weeks pregnant at the time of the incident, which occurred at 9.08am on December 18, 2023. After continuing in the hard shoulder for some 88 metres, the truck ploughed into Evelyn's parked car [2], killing her and her unborn baby.

Norgate's lawyer said his client had been "momentarily distracted for seven or eight seconds at most" prior to the collision. The 58-year-old had previously plead guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.