{"id":132616,"date":"2023-10-24T10:14:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T10:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/?p=132616"},"modified":"2023-10-24T10:14:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T10:14:59","slug":"lorry-driver-jailed-for-30-months-after-crash-injured-schoolgirl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/world-news\/lorry-driver-jailed-for-30-months-after-crash-injured-schoolgirl\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorry driver jailed for 30 months after crash injured schoolgirl"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Lorry driver, 53, who left eight-year-old girl unable to think, walk or talk after smashing into family&#8217;s car on the hard shoulder at 55mph is jailed for 30 months<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Dominic Nicholls smashed into a stationary Nissan X-Trail\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>The crash left an eight-year-old girl &#8216;unable to think, walk or talk&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Now ten, the schoolgirl will need care for the rest of her life, police said<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A lorry driver who crashed into the back of a family car on the M42 leaving an eight-year-old schoolgirl unable to\u00a0&#8216;think, talk or walk again&#8217; has been\u00a0sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dominic Nicholls, 53, smashed into a stationary Nissan X-Trail which was on the hard shoulder with a family still inside. The car had broken down on the motorway in Warwickshire on April 28, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The little girl, now ten from Stafford, was\u00a0taken to Birmingham Children&#8217;s Hospital with life-threatening injuries and sadly she needs care for the rest of her life, leaving the family devastated in the wake of the 55mph crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her mother and father were also seriously hurt while their son sustained minor injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nicholls,\u00a0from Ipswich, was about a minute behind and &#8216;for reasons unknown&#8217;, his lorry drifted on to the hard shoulder and collided with the rear of the X-Trail before the family had time to exit the vehicle,\u00a0Warwick Crown Court heard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The family were returning to Staffordshire from Heathrow Airport after a holiday in Sri Lanka when the crash took place on the northbound carriageway just before midnight.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/24\/10\/76928005-12665277-image-m-2_1698138434913.jpg\" height=\"466\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Dominic Nicholls, 53, smashed into a stationary Nissan X-Trail which was on the hard shoulder with a family still inside. Emergency services found the car smashed and off road\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nicholls, of\u00a0Inkerman Terrace, Ipswich, pleaded guilty to three counts of dangerous driving causing serious injury at a previous hearing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At hearing on October 19, he was sentenced to 30 months in jail,\u00a0disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence for seven years and will have to pass an extended test to drive again. He was also ordered to pay a \u00a3190 victim surcharge.<\/p>\n<p>Police said dashcam footage from the HGV shows\u00a0Nicholls made no attempt to brake or take an avoiding action prior to the collision.<\/p>\n<p>PC Craig Pearson, of Warwickshire Police&#8217;s serious collision investigation unit, described the incident as a &#8216;very sad and tragic case&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;Mr Nicholls has never provided an explanation for why he allowed his HGV to travel directly onto the hard shoulder towards the family\u2019s X-Trail car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The overall responsibility for the speed and control of the vehicle must lay entirely within the hands of its driver &#8211; Dominic Nicholls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The standard of driving falls far below that expected of a careful and competent driver. We hope this sentence brings some comfort to the family whose lives have been devastated by what happened that day.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12665277\/lorry-driver-jailed-warwickshire-car-crash.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorry driver, 53, who left eight-year-old girl unable to think, walk or talk after smashing into family&#8217;s car on the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lorry driver jailed for 30 months after crash injured schoolgirl - bluemull<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/world-news\/lorry-driver-jailed-for-30-months-after-crash-injured-schoolgirl\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lorry driver jailed for 30 months after crash injured schoolgirl - 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