A lorry driver who killed a woman and three children when his vehicle ploughed into their stationary car while he was scrolling through music on his mobile phone has been jailed for 10 years. Tracey Houghton, 45, her sons, Ethan, 13, Josh, 11, and stepdaughter, Aimee, 11, died instantly when Tomasz Kroker drove his lorry into their car at 50mph. Their car was shunted underneath the back of a heavy goods vehicle and crushed to a third of its size. An hour earlier, Kroker, 30, had signed a declaration to his employer promising he would not use his phone at the wheel. Ward-Jackson said: “It was only at 0.75 second before that the dash-cam shows [Kroker] looking up with sudden horror on his face.

Source: The Guardian October 31, 2016 12:26 UTC