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M62 minibus driver jailed for six years and eight months over fatal crash

Minibus driver James Johnson has been jailed for six years and eight months for causing the M62 hen party coach crash.

Bethany Jones, 18, died in the crash which happened when she and friends and family were on their way to a hen party.

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Lorry driver describes moment he collided with minibus

Lorry driver accused of causing the death of a teenager in the M62 hen party coach crash has told a court of the moment he collided with the minibus

Eighteen year old Bethany Jones was killed and many of her friends and family were injured in the crash last year .

The prosecution say the lorry driver Kevin Ollerhead had time to avoid ploughing into the back of the minibus, but he says his first memory of the pile-up was seeing the vehicle directly in front of him. From Leeds Crown Court Chris Kiddey reports.

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