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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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Minibus driver jailed for more than six years over M62 crash

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

Trainee nurse Miss Jones was pronounced dead at the scene after suffering multiple injuries.

The other 19 passengers on the coach, who were from the Pontefract area, were all seriously injured in the crash.

Sentencing him to six years and eight months in prison today, Judge Guy Kearl QC said:

Your passengers were 20 females aged between 18 and 59 years. They were going on a night out, a hen night. They were mothers, daughters, sisters and friends. Each of them had put themselves in your hands to carry them safely to their destination. They trusted you with their lives.

– Judge Guy Kearl QC

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