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Driver fined over death crash

30th September 2004
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A SPLLDING TRUCK driver who killed three people in a crash has received a six-month driving ban and a f1,000 fine.

Steven Williams, from Lowestoft, has been acquitted of three accounts of causing death by dangerous driving. A jury at Ipswich Crown Court found him guilty of careless driving.

The court heard that he was driving at speeds of up to 58mph on a country road with a limit of 40mph. He went round a bend and ploughed into aToyota Starlet that had stopped to turn right, before swerving over the road and hitting another car coming the other way.

Ivan Jeffrey,his wife Pamela and her 85-year-old mother Constance Rome were killed instantly in the crash on the A144 near Halesworth on 10 July 2003.

A spokeswoman for road safety campaign group Brake says the sentence is a disgrace.


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