Licence for operator once jailed for road deaths
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A CUMBRIAN HAULIER who went to prison for killing two people in a road accident has been granted a six-truck,10-trailer licence.
In January 1997 Robert Lightfoot was sentenced to three years, reduced to two on appeal. This led to Joyce, Josephine, Stephen and Robert Lightfoot. trading as Viv S Light foot Transport. of Silloth, being called before the North Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell at a St Helens Public Inquiry.The firm was operating under interim authority.
The TC said that she thought everybody was entitled to be rehabilitated and she was quite happy to direct that repute was intact for the trading entity and the people concerned.
James Backhouse, for the firm, said the accident had nothing to do with vehicle condition. Robert Lightfoot had been driving a tractive unit along a country lane when he failed to notice a stationary vehicle in front of him that was waiting to turn right.