Death crash man weeps in court

A Shropshire lorry driver whose 39-tonne vehicle overturned on to a car killing a woman driver, broke down in court as he relived the tragedy.

Brian Kynaston, from Dingley Dell, Oswestry, denied speeding through changing traffic lights before his lorry toppled over, crushing a Peugeot car on November 1 last year.

The driver of the car, 63-year-old Valerie Taylor, of, Rawtenstall, Lancashire, died in the accident at the end of the M62 in Liverpool.

At Liverpool Crown Court yesterday, Kynaston, who denies causing death by dangerous driving, had to have a five-minute break to compose himself.

He told the jury he had gone through the lights under the fly-over at the bottom of the M62 on green.

He had been in the right hand filter lane as the vehicles in the inside lane were stationary or moving very slowly and he had been travelling at 35mph, he said.

He checked his mirror and noticed the right hand side of the trailer lifting into the air. "I felt the cab whipping straight over and I ended up flung across the cab and standing on the passenger door. All I remember is the road sliding towards me," Kynaston told the court.

He said he had not realised the load had fallen on anything at first. The 42-year-old broke down as he recalled the accident. He said the lights were on green and he did not know his consignment of scrap fridges and cars was an unsafe load.

Liverpool Crown Court has heard that contrary to the Department of Transport's code of safe practice, his trailer had been filled with the heavier baled cubed cars on top of fridges, instead of at the bottom.

The trial continues.