Fewston boss applies
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• The haulier whose truck caused a horrific accident in West Yorkshire in which six people died has applied for another Operator's Licence.
Tony Eyers used to run Skipton-based Fewston Transport. In September 1993 one of his trucks ploughed into a van, passers by and a terrace of shops in Sowerby Bridge. Three women, two men including the driver, and a girl aged two died in the accident.
The tipper was later found to have defective brakes on all eight wheels and Eyers was banned from being the director of a company for five years because of his attitude to road safety.
An inquest ruled that the victims had been unlawfully killed and relatives later persuaded the Crown Prosecution Service to bring a case of corporate manslaughter against Evers. However, this was thrown out of court because the judge believed he would not get a fair hearing.
Eyers has now applied for an 0-licence for six trucks for a company called North Riding Waste based at Marston Moor Business Park near York.
But Traffic Commissioner Tom Macartney has ordered a public inquiry into the application which will take place in Leeds in the next couple of weeks.
Halifax MP Alice Mahon is writing to Macartney about the application.
"I would be very, very surprised if he was granted a licence and I am sure the authority will take into account everything that has happened in the past," Mahon concludes.