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A couple who died following a crash on the A9 at Slochd[1] have now been named as Teresa Dyer and Gareth Watts[2].
The crash happened at around 7.10am last Monday and involved a white Ford Fiesta car and a white Vauxhall Vivaro van.
Gareth Watts and …
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, Lancashire, on May 17 last year.
A “heavily distracted” Platt failed to notice stationary…
“I can’t restore a void that should never have been left so soon”
19:24, 20 Sep 2025
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Lorry driver Neil Platt was mindlessly scrolling on his mobile phone before ramming at speed into Danny Aitchison’s Hyundai Kona, killing him instantly…
Police have named a Norfolk couple who died following a crash on the A9 at Slochd.The crash, which involved a white Ford Fiesta car and a white Vauxhall Vivaro van, happened at about 07:10 on Monday 15 September on the A9 between Inverness and Aviemore…
A veteran trucker who killed a British dad in a car crash after he was distracted by porn on his phone sat in his vehicle with his head in his hands after the gruesome incident, police photos showed.
Neil Platt can be seen sitting in the driver’s seat,…
The HGV driver has been jailed for 10 years
13:52, 20 Sep 2025
Neil Platt killed a man with his lorry while distracted by online porn
Trucker Neil Platt was distracted by pornography images on his phone just seconds before he killed a dad-of-two in a …
A suspected drink driver has been arrested after a van hit the back of a lorry in Mirfield[1] this morning.The crash led to the closure of the A644 Huddersfield Road near to the John Cotton factory. The passenger, a woman, of the van had to be freed fr…
Emergency services attended the A688 southbound, near Spennymoor, after a crash at 9am today (September 20).
One patient was taken to University Hospital of North Durham for further treatment.
The scene of the A688 crash in Bishop Auckland which saw on…
There were delays on a busy motorway this morning after a van hit the central reservation.
All traffic was shortly held on the M20 London-bound near junction 1 in Wrotham after the crash at about 9.30am.
The M20 was closed after a van crashed near ju…
‘It beggars belief that while in charge of that multi-tonne vehicle you were looking at social media and scrolling X’
11:30, 20 Sep 2025Updated 11:33, 20 Sep 2025
Neil Platt killed a man with his lorry while distracted by online porn
A horrific motorw…