Driver's bid for licence `impudent'
4th September 1997, Page 14
4th September 1997
Page 14
Page 14, 4th September 1997
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• A Crown Court judge has described a former lorry driver's bid to regain his driving licence, after killing six people in a motorway crash, as "impudent". Vincent Parsons was jailed for three years and banned from driving for 10 years in 1992 after he was found guilty of six charges of causing death by dangerous driving. Witnesses to the accident, which took place on the M42, said Parsons had been driving erratically and was apparently day-dreaming. His lorry ploughed into a queue of stationary vehicles. Parsons had applied to have the rest of his ban lifted—he has served five years of the disqualification. But Judge Thomas Corrie, at Birmingham Crown Court, ruled this out. The application was "impudent" and "unarguable", said Carrie.