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Suspended sentence for speeding driver
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dangerous driving against David Furnival of Congleton.
The court heard that a car driven by Margaret Robinson had pulled out of a side road at Brierlow Bar straight into the path of Fumival's speeding 32-tonne laden tipper in February 2008.
Robinson died at the scene of the incident. Before the collision happened, the tipper had been going at 60mph; it was travelling at 50mph at the point of impact.
Jeremy James, prosecuting, said that due to flawed technical data, it was impossible to conclude that had Furnival been driving within the 40mph speed limit, a fatality would not have occurred.
For Furnival, Mark Laprell said that had there been a speed trap on that road; and had no collision taken place, Furnival would have just been charged with a speeding offence.
His HGV driving licence had been taken away for 12 months by the Traffic Commissioner and he had been unemployed since.
Imposing the suspended prison sentence, disqualifying Furnival from driving for 18 months and ordering him to take an extended re-test as well as completing 200 hours of unpaid work. Judge John Burgess said Furnival had ignored the particular responsibility that drivers of heavy lorries had.
"You knew that stretch of road extremely well and you were aware that the junction was a danger spot," he told Furnival.