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‘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…
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…
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…