Driver convicted after fatal crash
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• A truck driver with 25 years' LGV driving experience faces up to five years in prison after he was convicted last week of causing the deaths of five women in a crash on the M50.
Peter Young, 47, of Amington, Tamworth, Staffordshire was trying to queue-jump traffic as it slowed for roadworks by switching into the slow lane at 61mph, Hereford Crown Court heard.
He failed to spot a Ford Fiesta and ran over it, pinning the car under his truck before hitting a barrier and overturning.
Four nurses died in the crushed Fiesta. And a woman passenger in another car was killed in a resulting six-vehicle pile-up which took place on 14 July last year near Tewkesbury, Glos. Young claimed he was already in the inside lane and could not avoid the nurses' car as it swerved from an outside lane in front of his flatbed truck.