Dangerous Lorry Driver Sentenced After Chichester Crash

A dangerous lorry driver who crashed into other vehicles at high speed in Chichester has been jailed.

Kuljinder Singh was driving a Mercedes HGV and failed to brake for traffic on the A27.

He was recorded crashing into the rear of a van at more than 50mph, and was still accelerating at the moment of impact.

He left three people with life-changing serious injuries.

“The driver of that HGV has destroyed my life,” one victim said.

Singh, 45, of Ennis Square, Redcar, North Yorkshire, was arrested and charged with three counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

He admitted the charges and at Portsmouth Crown Court on 10 October he was sentenced to three years and eight months in prison.

He was disqualified from driving for one year and 11 months.

The court was told how the incident happened at abut 4.15pm on August 8, 2022, on the dual carriageway eastbound between the Fishbourne and Stockbridge roundabouts.

Footage from inside his lorry showed Singh failing to notice stationary traffic ahead of him in lane one.