rsherdley published Newark 'texting' lorry driver jailed

A lorry driver was exhausted and sent a text message just before he ploughed into the back of a woman's car, causing life-changing injuries, a court heard.John Cupit was behind the wheel of a 32-ton tipper truck when he hit Karen Barrowcliffe, fracturing her right arm, shoulder, pelvis, seven ribs, her lower spine and lacerating her liver.Cupit had sent a text message three-quarter's of a minute before and admitted in text messages sent in the days before he was shattered.At Nottingham Crown...