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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Kenny Parker & Todd Fitzgerald

Delivery driver killed gran in motorway smash having taken amphetamine to 'stay awake' while on the road for nearly 12 hours

The case of a van driver who killed a grandmother in a motorway smash having taken amphetamine 'to stay awake while making deliveries across the country' left a judge 'astonished'. Marcin Szewczyk, 43, ploughed into the back of a Kia Sportage in heavy traffic at 58mph, pushing it into a HGV.

Suzanne Taylor was a passenger in the back seat of the vehicle, which was at a stand-still with the hazards on. The 71-year-old suffered fatal injuries and tragically died at the scene, on the M6 near Sandbach in Cheshire.

Daughter Wendy Jones, 49, was in the front passenger seat. She now has to use a wheelchair, having been seriously injured.

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