A lorry driver who was "distracted" as he looked at pornography images seconds before he killed a father of two in a motorway crash has been jailed.

Neil Platt was sentenced to 10 years behind bars on Friday for causing the death of a man while driving a heavy goods vehicle (HGV) near junction four of the M58 in Skelmersdale, Lancashire , on 17 May last year.

Preston Crown Court heard 43-year-old Platt was using the social media platform X while driving, and images of naked women appeared on his feed as he approached stationary traffic.

Platt, at the time "heavily distracted", then struck the Hyundai Kona car of Danny Aitchison, 46, as he waited at the end of a queue.

Image: Danny Aitchison. Pic: Lancashire Constabulary

Mr Aitchison's vehicle was pushed into the back of a tanker

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