Maximum fine for Fewston Transport
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• Fewston Transport, whose truck killed .six people in Sowerby Bridge last September, has been fined .C5,000 with £100 costs by Calderdale magistrates.
This is the maximum penalty allowed for the offence of using a lorry with defective brakes which the Skipton-based haulier admitted.
Associated charges against the company's managing director Tony Eyers and its fleet engineer Eric Preston have been dismissed.
Richard Hodgson, prosecuting, told magistrates that all eight brakes on the 10-tonne tipper were found to be worn.
The Director of Public Prosecutions has decided that the company will face no more charges in relation to the accident, despite an inquest finding that the six dead had been unlawfully killed.
A further investigation by West Yorkshire Police revealed there was no evidence for further criminal charges.