Hideous 2nd HGV driver ploughs into autos after falling asleep

Horrific images shows how a lorry driver ploughed into stationary traffic after he fell asleep on the wheel. 

Mariusz Wlazlo, forty seven, was once jailed after he drove his fully-laden HGV into two autos at 43mph on a busy motorway.

The Polo driver, a lady in her 50s, spent weeks in hospital the place she was once handled for broken ribs and fractures to vertebrae.

The Toyota driver additionally wanted to be handled in hospital for support and neck ache.

Police launched images of the break to level to the risks of no longer paying consideration on the avenue.

At the scene, Wlazlo told police: ‘I mediate I went to sleep for a 2nd.

‘I’m in a position to’t demonstrate as I don’t preserve in mind.

‘It was once worship a dream.’

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Dashcam images from the lorry and from one other nearby car shows how Wlazlo, who was once an agency driver on the support of the wheel of an Eddie Stobart car on the time, was once speeding up on the time of the impact.

Wlazlo was once in a 40mph zone of the southbound M6 between junction eight and junction 7, near Mountainous Barr, Birmingham, on the time of impact.

The M6 southbound was once closed for ninety minutes after the break, which took instruct at around 9.40pm on March 15 this yr.

Wlazlo, who held a paunchy, neat UK driving licence and had no fable of motoring offences in his house nation of Poland, admitted causing serious harm by unpleasant driving and was once jailed for sixteen months at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Wednesday.

Wkazlo, of Speke, Liverpool, was once additionally banned from driving for 3 years and eight months, and ordered to purchase a protracted re-take a look at.

PC Gareth Phillips, of the Central Motorway Police Team, stated: ‘The collision has had a devastating impact on the victim in the Polo.

‘Though she has made a bodily restoration, she now feels unable to power on the motorway.

‘It shows staunch how principal it is to preserve fully focussed on the avenue and surrounding stipulations, and to repeatedly abide by the flow limit as displayed on gantry signs.

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