Widow has to wait for court
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by James Brewster • The widow of a lorry driver killed with five others in the Sowerby Bridge disaster faces another wait before the High Court will hear her bid to have corporate manslaughter charges brought against the former haulage firm Fewston Transport.
The court decided this week that not enough time had been set aside to hear Brenda Waterworth's case: it fixed the next hearing for 28 November.
In 1993 Derek Waterworth died at the wheel of his tipper when it smashed into a BT van and a shop, killing three women, a man and a twoyear-old girl. An inquest later ruled that all six had been unlawfully killed.
Mrs Waterworth is challenging the Crown Prosecution Service's refusal to charge Fewston Transport with corporate manslaughter. Fewston admitted using a lorry with defective brakes before Calderdale magistrates in May last year and was fined the maximum penalty of £5,000. Last December the company was banned from the roads indefinitely after North Eastern Traffic Commissioner Keith Waterworth condemned its "cavalier attitude" to road safety.