Lorry driver due to be sentenced over A34 crash deaths

A lorry driver who killed a mother and three children by ploughing into their stationary car while looking at his mobile phone at the wheel is due to be sentenced.

Tomasz Kroker, 30, smashed into the vehicle carrying Tracey Houghton, 45, her sons Josh Houghton, 11, Ethan Houghton,13, and stepdaughter Aimee Goldsmith, 11, while travelling at 50mph on August 10.

The four victims, who were returning to their home in Bedfordshire from a camping trip, died at the scene on the A34 north of Newbury.

Tracey Houghton, Ethan Houghton, Aimee Goldsmith and Josh Houghton all died in the crash

A man was seriously injured and four other people were hurt in the crash.

Thames Valley Police said Kroker ploughed into a stationary queue of two lorries and four smaller vehicles stuck behind a "slow moving articulated lorry" near the villages of East and West Ilsley, shortly after 5.10pm.

Kroker, from Andover in Hampshire, pleaded guilty to four counts of causing death by dangerous driving and one count of causing serious injury by dangerous driving at Reading Crown Court on October 10.