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Crash driver off with stress
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A DRIVER WORKING for Hertfordshire firm Funstons Transport who was caught up in the A52 crash in Lincolnshire last week had still not returned to work as CMwent to press. Six people died in the head-on collision between a minibus and a Hovis lorry, including the truck driver.
Dave Shaw, operations director at Royston-based Funstons, says: "Our driver is a bit shaken up and isn't going back on the road yet. Thankfully he was far enough behind to put on the brakes and stop, but he's obviously still suffering from stress."
Another driver involved in the crash was Brian Thompson, who was driving for Wimblington, Cambs-based haulier Knowles Transport. He says that this was the first accident he had been in, and reports that his truck was shaking from side to side like being in something stronger than a gale-force wind".
It is believed that the minibus driver had attempted to overtake two trucks.
The minibus then collided head on with the Hovis truck, which was travelling in the opposite direction. A fourth lorry then smashed into the back of the Hovis truck.