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A company boss who struck and killed a pensioner with his van as he drove home to have lunch has avoided jail.
The family of Genevieve Sutton were in court to see 60-year-old Jesse Milton – the managing director of Folkestone Trawlers – sentenced over …
A HGV driver was “heavily distracted” by pornographic images on his phone immediately before he killed a father-of-two in a motorway crash.Dashcam footage of the fatal collision on 17 May, 2024, shows Neil Platt scrolling on his phone whilst driving do…
A busy motorway was partly closed due to a lorry fire.Traffic was being held on the M1 southbound carriageway between junction 13, near Milton Keynes, and junction 12, near Toddington in Bedfordshire at 18:00 BST.Emergency services were at the scene wo…
A lorry driver who was “distracted” as he looked at pornography images seconds before he killed a father of two in a motorway crash has been jailed.
Neil Platt was sentenced to 10 years behind bars on Friday for causing the death of a man while driving…
4 hours agoJonny HumphriesNorth WestLancashire PoliceA HGV driver who killed a father-of-two while “heavily distracted” by pornography on his phone has been jailed for 10 years. Neil Platt was scrolling through pictures of naked women on the social med…
ITV Granada Reports correspondent Rob Smith was in court for the sentencing hearingA lorry driver with an “arrogant and selfish attitude to driving” was scrolling pornography on his phone moments before crashing into the back of a car – killing a fathe…
Neil Platt, 43, crashed into father-of-two Daniel Aitchison’s car, killing him instantly
19:34, 19 Sep 2025
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Neil Platt was driving his HGV from Dumfries in Scotland to Liverpool.
An HGV driver has been jailed after he was caught scrolli…
Neil Platt was described as a “multi-tonne accident waiting to happen”
Cheryl Mullin and Kim Pilling
19:11, 19 Sep 2025Updated 19:18, 19 Sep 2025
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Neil Platt’s lorry smashed into Danny Aitchison car at 54mph, after Platt had been distrac…
Neil Platt, 43, was looking at porn on his mobile phone while driving an HGV on the M58 in Skelmersdale before crashing into a car belonging to Danny Aitchison, who was tragically killed
20:13, 19 Sep 2025Updated 20:21, 19 Sep 2025
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A man who was riding a scooter has died following a four-vehicle crash.Officers were called to the collision, which happened on the A361 near Glastonbury, in Somerset, at about 14:15PM BST on Wednesday.The crash involved a Lambretta scooter, a Polestar…