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Tom Beattie

Lorry driver who caused three deaths in horror crash on A1 in County Durham speaks out from prison cell

A lorry driver who caused a collision which killed three people has spoken out from his prison cell.

Ion Onut was using the internet on his phone when he crashed his Scania truck into slow moving traffic on the northbound carriageway of the A1(M) last July, killing three people and injuring several others.

Forensic examinations of his mobile phone found that Onut, of Galashiels, in Scotland, had been repeatedly using the device’s web browser throughout his journey from Cambridgeshire right up until the time of the collision, which happened at 6.18pm at Bowburn on July 15.

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