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Evening Standard
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Anahita Hossein-Pour

Travis Perkins fined £2m after dad-of-three killed by timber-load lorry fall

Jack Stevens was killed after loose timber fell off a lorry and hit his car on May 13, 2020 (Family handout/PA) -

A major building supplies firm has been fined £2 million after a “grossly inadequate and unsafe” timber load fell from a lorry and killed a dad-of-three in an oncoming car.

Jack Stevens, 28, was driving his BMW when materials pierced his windscreen and killed him on the A26 in Newhaven, East Sussex on May 13 2020.

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