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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 …
‘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…
A horror crash which killed an innocent dad-of-two [1]on a motorway was captured in shocking video.Danny Aitchison died after his Hyundai Kona[2] became sandwiched between two lorry’s on the M58 on May 17 last year.Footage taken[3] from inside Neil Pla…
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…
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 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
Dashcam footage of…
A spokesperson for the police said: “Today our Road Safety Camera vans will be operating on the A595 between Carlisle & Thursby, West Carlisle, Dalston, Durdar, Distington, Workington, the A66 west of Penrith and the M6 J40 -J37.”
Drivers are urged…
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP Tim Farron called for the green light to be given for a northern relief road in Kendal after the town was gridlocked all day on Thursday, September 11.
Roads through Kendal and surrounding areas were badly affected after the…