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Mobile Phone Use Whilst Driving Kills!

Thames Valley Police have issued this very stark and emotional video following the death of several family members as a result of being hit by a Lorry whose driver was using a mobile phone at the time of the collision.

This is a stark warning to everyone that using a mobile phone whilst driving means you take a risk of killing someone!

 

The clip was released following the sentencing of Tomasz Kroker for 10 years after the lorry he was driving ploughed into a queue of cars on the A34 while he was changing the music on his phone. He instantly killing four members of the same family and seriously injuring one other person during the crash on the A34 in August. The family's Vauxhall Corsa with 45-year-old mother Tracey Houghton, her sons Ethan, 13, and Josh, 11, and her partner's daughter Aimee Goldsmith, 11, was forced underneath a lorry in front and crushed 'to a third of its size'.

Source: Runcorn and Widnes World / Thames Valley Police / Angela Teeling

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