A LORRY driver who elderly killed an motorist and badly injured his wife in a catastrophic head-on collision has been jailed for four years.
Garry Tierney drove onto the wrong side of the road before crashing into the car driven by Matthew Donnell who was accompanied by his wife Edith on October 7, 2020.
Tierney's defense counsel David Nicolson told the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday: "He accepts that he drove his vehicle into the oncoming carriageway and did so for a number of seconds.
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