Travis Perkins fined £2m after timber falls from lorry killing driver

A court has fined builders’ merchant Travis Perkins £2m after part of a timber load fell off one of its lorries and into the windscreen of an oncoming car, killing the driver.
The firm admitted three safety offences and sentence was passed at Hove Crown Court on Thursday.
On May 13, 2020, father-of-three Jack Stevens, 28, who was driving a BMW, died when a strip of timber came loose from a Travis Perkins vehicle on the A26 after it left the company’s Newhaven depot.The court he