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Rizwan Mehdi, 36, of Commercial Street, Brierfield, appeared at Burnley Crown Court on Wednesday (October 15), where he pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.
Kashif Mehdi, 42, of Montcliffe Crescent, Manchester, admitted perverting the …
Stephen Worden, 61, was cleared of dangerous driving after a trial at Preston Crown Court. He had previously pleaded guilty to causing death and serious injury by careless driving
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A driver accused of causing the death of a six-year-old girl by dangerous driver told police he ‘pumped and pumped the brakes’ but his flat-bed truck would not stop.
Millie Gribble died after being struck by the truck, driven by Stephen Worden, moments…
A dad who killed his own son in a drug fuelled driving collision was among those jailed in September 2025.Daniel Burba lost control of his van on the M6 near Lancaster, killing his teenage son.Also jailed were shoplifters, drug dealers and paedophiles….
Commuters heading towards Manchester and Bolton from Preston have been stuck in long delays
Motorists heading out of Preston towards Bolton and Manchester saw early morning delays on the M61.
Delays of more than half-an-hour were reported on the M61[1]…
Michael Moore, 62, who had an unblemished 30-year professional driving career before the incident, was sentenced at Carlisle Crown Court after he admitted causing serious injury by dangerous driving on the A591 near Kendal.
Prosecutor Tariq Khawam outl…
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…
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…