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This is the horrifying moment an ‘arrogant, selfish’ lorry driver caused the death of a beloved dad-of-two in a motorway crash while being distracted by pornography on his mobile phone.Photographs of naked women appeared on the X social media feed of N…
Photographs of naked women appeared on the X social media feed of Neil Platt, 43, moments before the horrific crash near junction four of the M58 in Skelmersdale on May 17 last year.
A “heavily distracted” Platt failed to notice stationary traffic ahea…
A man and women have been taken to hospital after two cars, a pickup truck and a flatbed van were involved in the crash on the A456 in Newnham Bridge near Tenbury Wells on Thursday.
All three emergency services attend the incident and the two injured p…
We’re appealing for witnesses and any dashcam footage after a man died following a collision on the A361 between Glastonbury and Pilton.
The collision happened at about 2.25pm on Wednesday (17 September) and involved a Lambretta scooter, a Polestar car…
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…
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 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…
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
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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…