Man jailed for dangerous driving by using mobile while at the wheel of a HGV lorry

A man was jailed for dangerous driving by using his mobile while at the wheel of a HGV lorry.

He was jailed for using his mobile phone behind the wheel of an HGV lorry and causing a pile-up on a busy motorway.

Razvan Rusu, 30, of no fixed address was sentenced to eight months in prison for dangerous driving at Harrow Crown Court.

He was also banned from driving for three years and required to take an extended retest.

Rusu, a Romanian national who had been living in the UK, left the country and returned to Romania after the incident. On his return to the UK he was summonsed and his passport seized.

He pleaded guilty to dangerous driving on Monday, 10 October at the same court.

Police were called at 8.20am on March 17 2015 to the scene of a road traffic collision on the M1, near junction 2.

Officers attended and established that an HGV tipper lorry had crashed into slow moving traffic, causing damage to three cars and injuring two drivers. Both drivers were taken to hospital for treatment but released the same day.

Police recovered dash cam footage of the incident from the HGV which clearly showed Rusu using his mobile phone for a distance of two kilometres prior to the crash.

One male driver noticed the fast approaching HGV and managed to swerve out of the way, avoiding a potentially serious or fatal injury.