A 10-year-old girl will need life-long care, police say, after the lorry hit the broken-down car.
A lorry driver who admitted seriously injuring three members of a family when he hit their car on the hard shoulder has been jailed.
Dominic Nicholls, 51, of Hadleigh, Ipswich, crashed into the back of their Nissan X-Trail which had broken down on the M42 in Warwickshire, in April 2022.PC Craig Pearson of Warwickshire Police's serious collision investigation unit, said the lives of the Stafford family had been "devastated by what happened that day".
The family were returning from Heathrow Airport after a holiday when the crash happened on the northbound carriageway shortly before midnight on 28 April. Nicholls was about a minute behind and "for reasons unknown, the lorry drifted on to the hard shoulder at 55mph and collided with the rear of the X-Trail before the family had time to exit the vehicle", police said.
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