Staff Reporter
Published:
3:09 PM May 13, 2021
Updated:
3:56 PM May 13, 2021
The scene of a crash at Little Fransham, A47, which killed Peter Stebbings from Necton.Picture: Used with permission from Kirsty (@InTahUK) on Twitter
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A lorry driver has admitted causing a crash that killed two people on the A47 last year.
Daniel Hewett was driving on the main road between Little Fransham and Necton when he failed to notice congestion ahead of him and swerved into oncoming traffic
Hewett, 38, of Fairfax Road, Norwich, was travelling towards Swaffham on March 6, 2020, when he swerved into the opposite lane.
Calvin Beckett, 47, who was driving a Jewson lorry, died at the scene, while 78-year-old Peter Stebbings died in hospital the following day.
King s Lynn woman admits attacking ex-partner over relationship with best friend Published: 12:30, 07 February 2021
A Lynn woman who suffered the âultimate betrayalâ of a best friend having a relationship with her partner has appeared in court for assaulting him.
Cara Clarke, 32, has been made the subject of a two-year restraining order, preventing her from contacting her ex or going to his home in Millfleet Court, Stonegate Street.
She appeared before magistrates in Lynn on Thursday to plead guilty to two counts of criminal damage at the property, using violence to secure entry and assaulting him.
King s Lynn Magistrates Court (44075079)
Prosecutor Stacie Cossey said police received a 999 call from the man on October 4, 2020, saying that Clarke had smashed a window.
Tractor driver, John Harrison, has been disqualified from driving for 12 months after Ben Johnson, a father-of-six, was killed when his tractor collided with the car in which he was a passenger.
Harrison was also ordered to pay £230 in costs and surcharge
Stacie Cossey, prosecuting, said the collision happened just after 9am. Mr Johnson was a front-seat passenger in the car being driven by family friend Emma Donger, whose 15-month-old son was in the back.
Miss Cossey said: “The nearside of the Astra collided with the front press. This resulted in the roof being torn off and, sadly, Ben Johnson was killed.”
Ben (known as Benji) Johnson and his fiance Ashleigh. Mr Johnson was the victim of a fatal collision at Wisbech involving a tractor. His fiance s god-mother launched an appeal to support the couple s six children.
Tractor driver admits causing West Norfolk village crash death tragedy
| Updated: 17:49, 04 February 2021
A court has heard how a father-of-six was killed when a tractor collided with the car in which he was a passenger.
Ben Johnson died at the scene of the incident in Wisbech Road, Outwell on October 10, 2019, when an agricultural attachment on the front of the tractor ripped the roof off the Vauxhall Astra.
Tractor driver John Harrison, 52, was emerging from a gateway to his property when the the car collided with the front press attachment, which extended forwards about 1.5m.
King s Lynn Magistrates Court (44075496)
At Kingâs Lynn Magistratesâ Court today (Thursday), Harrison, of Wisbech Road, Outwell, pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving.