Death by dangerous driving leads to jail
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• A driver who ploughed into a Father-of-three with his truck has been jailed for four months after being found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving.
Ian Kershaw of Stapleford, Notts, was also banned from driving for three years and ordered to take an extended test. He had pleaded not guilty.
Stafford Crown Court heard that last June the Victim, Mr Harvey, of Brownhills, Staffs, had bought a two-seat kit car from Nottingham. It broke dawn and at midnight he was pushing it along the A5 at New Town.
The jury heard how Kershaw, a self-employed dri
ver, was driving a Scania which had been ``tarted up". But the cosmetics hid a faulty accelerator and an under-inflated nearside front tyre.
Kershaw did not see Harvey until he was about 20ft away; despite braking and trying to swerve out of the way, he ran into him.
Peter Cooper, defending, said: It is an explained mystery as to how the vehicle was unseen. It is fair to say the driving was perfectly in order up to a very short period before this happened."
Harvey's mother, Catherine, and his 33-year-old widow, Mandy, later said that the sentence was too lenient.