Fatal crash appeal lost
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• A lorry driver who caused the deaths of five women as he jumped a queue after being cut up by a "Sunday driver" has lost his appeal against convictions of causing death by dangerous driving.
Peter Stanley Young of Amington, Tainworth, Staffs, claimed that the Worcester Crown Court judge who presided over his trial last year failed to stress to the jury that the way in which a car involved in the crash was drivers could have led to the accident.
But appeal judge Mr Justice Tuckey said Young's defence was that a Sierra immediately in front of him on the M50 near Tewkesbury had cut him up and that was the crucial issue of the case.
Young was given a 15 month prison sentence on 19 September last year. Tuckey said that another lorry driver using the M50 on the day of the accident, 14 July 1993, noticed the Sierra before the accident and thought it was being driven by a "Sunday driver".