A Norwich tipper driver has been jailed for two-and-a-half years
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for causing the death of a five-year-old girl who was crushed under the wheels of his truck in Cambridgeshire. Carl Pottle, 38, from Hellesdon was found guilty at Peterborough Crown Court of causing Amy HoIts' death last August by driving without due care and attention and failing to provide a breath specimen. He was also disqualified from driving for five years.
The jury heard how Pottle, who had been suffering from a hangover, was installing cable television at a house in Whittlesey on the morning of the accident. Witnesses told the court he smoked a cannabis joint before climbing into the cab of his truck. Failing to check his mirror or signal, he turned left into a parking bay, dragging the little girl under the wheels of his Ford tipper.