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Trucker jailed after slabs kill car driver
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• by Mike Jewell A Stockport lorry driver has been jailed for 12 months after concrete slabs fell from his lorry onto a car, killing the driver.
Kenneth Frost, of Cheadle Hulme, pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving when he appeared at Manchester Crown Court.
Prosecuting, Jamie Hamilton said that as Frost's vehicle rounded a bend three concrete slabs fell off, Two hit a wall but a third, weighing 4.5 tonnes, landed in the road and tipped into an oncoming car driven by Desmond Langham. Langham was killed and his wife had to be cut from the car.
Frost had collected seven slabs from premises in Trafford Park, Manchester and was hauling them to Oldham. He had been told the approximate weight of the slabs and believed they weighed between three and 3.5 tonnes. In fact their total weight exceeded the vehicle's permitted maximum by 3,720kg. an overload of almost 10%.
For Frost. Robert Golinski said that he had wrongly relied on information given to him by others. The slabs had weighed up to 4.5 tonnes apiece, a tonne heavier than Frost had been told, and at least four other drivers had left with similar loads. This was not a case of deliberate bad driving, Golinski added—it had been an oversight...an error of judgement.
Jailing Frost, banning him from driving for two years and ordering that he take an extended driving test before driving again, Judge Barry Woodward told him: ''It was your responsibility to ensure that this potentially dangerous load did not result in any danger to the public.
You failed to do so. You failed to check the weight and security of the load and you drove off with the vehicle in a dangerous condition."