Killer HGV driver watched porn on phone seconds before crash

TRUCKER SO DISTRACTED HE DROVE INTO M58 TRAFFIC QUEUE

- By CHERYL MULLIN ECHO News Editor

AN HGV driver was distracted by pornographic images on his phone just seconds before he killed a father-of-two in a motorway collision, a court has heard.

Photographs of naked women appeared on the X social media feed of Neil Platt, 43, moments before the horrific crash near junction four of the M58 in Skelmersdale on May 17 last year.

A 'heavily distracted' Platt failed to notice stationary traffic ahead of him and struck the Hyundai Kona car of Danny Aitchison, 46, as he waited at the end of a queue.

Mr Aitchison's vehicle was pushed into the rear of a tanker and his car exploded into flames on impact.

Preston Crown Court heard that Platt persistently viewed content on his phone during a three-hour journey from Dumfries, Scotland, along the M6 and then when he joined the westbound carriageway of the M58.