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A man has died in a collision between a tractor, a milk tanker and a car on a dual carriageway in North Yorkshire.Police were called to the crash, which involved a red Fiat 500, a John Deere tractor and a white HGV milk tanker, on the A168 near Dishfor…
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…
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…
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 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…