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16/02/2009
Lorry Driver Jailed For M6 Death Crash
A Portuguese lorry driver has been found guilty of causing the deaths of a family of six in a crash on the M6.
Paulo Jorge Nogueira da Silva was sentenced to three years in jail after killing the Statham family, of Llandudno, when the 40-tonne lorry he was driving hit their car as they travelled home from Birmingham.
David and Michelle Statham, and their four children, were heading home to North Wales when his lorry struck their people carrier on the M6 at Sandbach, Cheshire, on October 20, last year.
The couple, originally from Sutton Coldfield, had returned to the Midlands to introduce their 10-week old baby to family and friends.
The Statham's and their four sons Reece, 13, Jay, nine and Mason, 20 months, and 10-week-old baby daughter Ellousie died instantly when their car was pushed under a Volvo car.
Da Silva, 46, of Murcia, in Spain, was convicted at Chester Crown Court of six counts of causing death by careless driving.
(JM/BMcC)
Paulo Jorge Nogueira da Silva was sentenced to three years in jail after killing the Statham family, of Llandudno, when the 40-tonne lorry he was driving hit their car as they travelled home from Birmingham.
David and Michelle Statham, and their four children, were heading home to North Wales when his lorry struck their people carrier on the M6 at Sandbach, Cheshire, on October 20, last year.
The couple, originally from Sutton Coldfield, had returned to the Midlands to introduce their 10-week old baby to family and friends.
The Statham's and their four sons Reece, 13, Jay, nine and Mason, 20 months, and 10-week-old baby daughter Ellousie died instantly when their car was pushed under a Volvo car.
Da Silva, 46, of Murcia, in Spain, was convicted at Chester Crown Court of six counts of causing death by careless driving.
(JM/BMcC)
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