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in kentucky has risen to 15, and is expected to double. at ten o'clock, jane will be here with a full round up of the day's news. first, deadly browsing: the lorry driver. how a lorry driver, looking at dating sites while driving, went on to kill three. a warning this programme contains images some viewers may find upsetting. news report: nissan in sunderland| and rolls-royce are among the firms reporting production problems caused by staff being forced _ to stay at home... i'm on the motorway, i think you'll already have a million calls about an accident. there are cars on fire. it'll be all the services. | mate, don't go any further because i this might blow up any second now. you can hear it popping. at least two obvious fatalities.

can you push them back a bit? yeah, yeah. of course. we willjust get rid of these lot. everyone, clear away! there is still a risk. of further explosion! it is literally like a bomb has gone off. have you got your mobile phone with you at the moment? could i take that from you, please? you are under arrest— for causing death by dangerous driving, all right. there has been some fatalities in these cars over here. - whiskey victor 1—3 golf hotel x—ray. angry. but, yeah, i do still feel partly sorry for him, his life is ruined. so we've got one, two, three dead patients. that we know. i never had a chance to apologise, to say sorry to anybody.

it was quite a nice sunny day, july 15, nothing out of the ordinary really was going on that day, just another day of work, as far as we were concerned. just finishing work, it was my dog's birthday the next day, so i was going home, but by pets at home to get him some birthday presents. it was quite warm, especially when you are pregnant, so the aircon was on in the car. the weather was really nice. i had been sitting out in the garden before i had come to work, - so i was in a really good mood. just moseying up the motorway heading to work, nothing special. shift was due to start at seven o'clock on the evening. 12 hour night shift, finishing at seven o'clock the next morning. i remember slowing down in stationary traffic. saw the traffic

from a good distance. put my hazard lights on, slowed down pretty much around here somewhere. because there was cars and other traffic on the inside, _ i couldn't get off, so ijust had to stay where i was. _ i thought to myself, "he is going fast for the distance he has got to stop for this stationary traffic. and then i thought, "he's not going to stop." i heard a bang, that must have been when he hit a car. i thought it was my tyre. but then all of a sudden i have gone like this. and then he just literally went into the back of the queueing traffic. the lorry is travelling nearly 60 mph. it crushes a car and a pick—up truck, collides with michael's hgv, and then swerves into two more cars, including the red one driven by molly. out of nowhere, ijust felt

this impact from behind. ijust remember all of a sudden hearing the kind of crashing sounds of metal. it seemed to go up over the top of vehicles and then skewed - across in front of me. hit the barrier in the middle i of the motorway and exploded. and then all of a sudden being stopped on the ai just with a lot of fire around me. i said, i'm going to ring, . and i picked up my phone, and i literally... my hands were shaking that much i couldn't dial, - i couldn't do anything. anyway, eventually i managed to ring. i i am on the motorway, i think you will already| have a million calls about an accident. i are you 0k? i'm 0k. i've just seen it. it's a lorry. there is dead people, i'm sure.

it's gone up in flames and everything. - i will be honest, _ icouldn't move, which is... one of the things that upsets me a little bit, because there was all these people, to my mind, going into what was. carnage, and i literally... i feel like i froze. a lorry has caught fire and hit something. one minute ago it happened. you have got to get there quick, people are going to be killed. i need police and fire brigade quick to the a1 northbound. did you see anyone except the vehicles? —— did you see anyone exit the vehicles? no, it literally was just seconds since we have gone past. - the fireball was that big i would be surprised if anybody could have. i the cars on fire. it will be all the services.

my first instinct was to help the driver of the heavy goods vehicle. there were people screaming at me to get away from the truck. but my response was, i ain't going to let him die. then i kicked the windscreen and of the wagon and i pulled him out. out he came. didn't say anything to me, don't know what were going through his head. don't know what were going through mine at the time. are you injured at all? i'm all right, pal. obviously kind of initially just dazed. what's going on? ijust stood and looked back. it was probably only a couple of seconds, but itjust felt like i was stood still for ages. it felt like i was there five, ten minutes, taking it all in. with being pregnant and the amount of fire that was going on around, ijust thought, "i need to get away from this." you do not know if anything else is going to catch fire or explode or anything like that, so i started to move in the opposite direction. in the distance, i could see a huge plume of thick black smoke. i shouted up to communications

and asked if there was something going on that i needed to know about. they said, yeah, there had been a multiple vehicle rtc at bowburn, and that i was going to be first on the scene. what was noticeable at first was the smell from the fire and the heat coming from the fire. so if you imagine i have gone past, it has been on the other side of the road, gone past at some speed, and it was like opening the oven door, just that intense heat. just to confirm there is a paramedic on scene, army i believe, and there is some deceased inside the vehicle. i had arrived on scene to see that there was a deceased male in the hilux. that is when you know it is serious. try not to associate it with actually being a person. that might sound a bit cold, but, yeah, just try to think of it

as just something you have to deal with rather than it being an actual person. his mobile phone was ringing a lot, which is a shock reminder that this is a person, they do have a family, somebody is wanting to speak to them. that could be my family, that could be me trying to ring any of my family. it's literally like a bomb has gone off. i could only describe what was a scene of carnage, debris all over the place, it was clearly quite a serious crash. it has definitely been hit. mate, don't go any further because this might blow up any second now. you can hear it popping. i think everyone was looking towards us to be told what to do or to help. as one of the first officers on scene, it was quite daunting situation to be faced with. we are going to have to disturb the wreckage just to ensure there is no one else in there. i have been told there is a second fatality at the scene. there is a deceased dog here, as well, and the carriageway,

in lane two on the northbound. possible causation, obviously not confirmed at the minute. you could see the lane of traffic stationary. i started to slow down. he didn't, there was no brake lights. the next thing you know, he just careered into the whole... right, and that is the white truck that was on fire in the middle of the road? thank you very much for hanging around, mate. are you all right? are you sure? yeah. take a bit of time, ok. have a sit down in the car, mate. i think the first thing that we tried to do was to gain some sort of control over the scene itself. we have got two hgvs with fertiliser on board. get people away! fertiliser! everyone, clear away! there is still a risk of a further explosion! that is going to blow up any second and it is full of fertiliser. the fire brigade managed to put out the flames and continue to cool the lorry down.

i have spoken with fire. they are burnt beyond recognition, you can barely make out the car here. it has obviously been hit by the hgv. it looks like when we've looked at it there's possibly... there is definitely two underneath the vehicle. hello. are you ok? yeah. yeah? what kind of injuries have you got? i thinkjust i banged my head. i knew i'd banged my head, but i hadn't realised that it had, like, cut open and stuff. and i had, like, blood trickling down my face because it was that... the pregnancy was my main concern. do you need to go to hospital? are they checking you in? yeah, because i am pregnant, so it is best to go get checked. how far along are you? 26 weeks. ok, yeah, absolutely, - essential you get checked. i don't care about my head. i was like, ijust care about finding out that the baby is ok still. good news, the driver of the silver wagon on fire has been located. i fit and well. everything happened too fast, everybody pulled the brakes super fast. attention now turned to the driver of the lorry that caused all of the damage.

i didn't have time to react, you know, in such a big machine. the next thing, i was trying to come this side on the middle so not to hit another wagon. is everybody over there ok? we are trying to get the best help we can to people at the moment. hello, how are you? i'm glad i'm alive. i bet you are. what happened? everything slowed down so quick, ijust couldn't slow in time, you know. 0k. it was a bit surreal to look at the lorry and to look at him unscathed. it was like, is this the driver of the lorry? how can it be? he was very quiet, reserved. clearly in shock. didn't see any hazards or nothing from the drivers ahead, nothing like that. right, ok. i just... i didn't realise. yeah. have you got your mobile phone

with you at the moment? could i take that from you, please? yeah, of course. this is the moment that would change onut�*s life forever. it is part of the investigation. obviously will be quite a large scale investigation into what has gone on. just coming up here, the traffic has been at a standstill, and he has obviously not reacted in time, so he hasjust ploughed into the back of it, basically. i have got his mobile phone. mobile phones are one of the things routinely that we seize from drivers involved in cases like this. used whilst driving. what are you going to do with him? can't leave him on his own, say, "off you go, we will get in touch with you later on," can we? no, he's going to be lifted. the time is 18:59, and you are under arrest for causing death by dangerous driving, all right. there has been some fatalities in these cars over here. you do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention, when questioned, something which you later rely on in court,

and anything you do see may be given in evidence. do you understand everything that i have said? at the time, i did not know how the accident had happened. it could just be a momentary lapsing, you know, in attention. i don't know, sneezing, a wasp, something like that. i didn't know why the accident had happened, and he had not been forthcoming in seeing so. —— forthcoming in saying so. i felt a bit sorry for him. as anybody put a call in to nat in flc? we knew at that point there was at least three people dead, and that was our main priority. it has got to be, hasn't it? we have got to get to them families and get them death messages delivered before it is out on social media. and we are always in a fight with social media to get to them families and deliver those messages before anyone else. he is the driver of this, yeah. the relatives of 51—year—old paul mullen, from washington on wearside, are quickly located and informed. 2408 from tango... but the couple in the other car are harder to identify. i have got the engine number. we knew that there was people within that vehicle that had perished in that fire, in the worst set of circumstances.

the driver of the car and her partner are named as elaine sullivan and david dalglish, both in their 50s, from seaham —— and david daglish, both in their 50s, from seaham in county durham. one of the family pets sadly died at the scene, and we had that... that dog had a chip in it, and we got most of our identity of the people involved due to the check that we had scanned off the vet. so, not only are we going to someone's house and letting them know that their loved ones have died, we are getting this information from a chip in an animal that is also dead in the road. it was horrendous. it was absolutely horrendous. the focus of the investigation now turns to how the crash happened. in my mind, there has either been a chemical defect —— in my mind, there has either been a mechanical defect and the vehicle would not stop, has he fallen asleep, the driver? or has he been distracted? and when we get to the scene and have a look at that,

it is something in my 20 year police career that was just different to anything else. it was just... it would make the hairs on your arm stand on end. it is awful. to think that somebody has been able to just plough through them vehicles, setting people on fire, and just ruining lives in an instant. the next day, 0nut is interviewed by the police. he has been told by his lawyers not to talk. you said, "everything slowed down so quick, i couldn't slow in time." did you say that? no comment. i will ask you, are you responsible for the cause of the death of those three persons, for the offence of death by dangerous driving? no comment. faced with 0nut�*s silence, the investigation focuses on his phone, and the evidence is damning. we could see he had been on his mobile phone pretty much all of the day. he was on it right to the point of impact. he was travelling at about 58 mph on his mobile phone at the point that he ploughed into the back

of the standstill traffic. a download of your phone has been carried out and shows usage of your phone throughout the day and the afternoon whilst driving. can you explain that to me? no comment. 0nut had spent most of the day browsing dating sites whilst at the wheel of his 44 tonne truck. the weight of evidence is stacked against him. at durham crown court, he pleads guilty to causing the three deaths and is sentenced to eight years and ten months injail. you must know if you are looking at your phone, especially if you're watching videos, sending messages, you must know that that is a potential consequence, and you have made that choice to do it. it is wasteful of everybody's life, the people who were killed. him, his life ruined for the sake of, well, swiping right or whatever it was he was doing on his mobile phone. 0nut is now injail, serving his sentence. he has decided he wants

to break his silence, to explain his actions and apologise to the families. i was destroyed. you could have taken my heart from my chest, it would probably not have been as painful as it was, honestly. when i seen the videos, ijust... i can't explain. so tragic and hard to see. it is so disturbing knowing it was me in that lorry, you know, ploughing through the cars. i still remember his reaction now, of pressing play on that cctv and watching him crumble. you know, you can be on the phone for two, three seconds, and if you drive 60 mph, you know, you can travel a few hundred yards, definitely.

and the phone that day was the distraction. the phone was the distraction, yeah. bad choice, a really bad choice. the wrong time, the wrong place. itjust happened and it's... it's just... i can't turn the time back to change anything. i haven't got the power to do that, you know. i wish i could. if the family of elaine, david, paul were to listen to this end were to listen to you today, what would you say to them? there is a million things i can tell people, you know, but i want to apologise, i want to say i am really sorry because i feel really

bad for what happened. i feel bad for the people who lost loved ones, people who were in danger and they have to suffer with flashbacks and injuries for the rest of their lives. it is hard, it is really hard. living for the rest of your life with that in your head is not easy either. i do not know what else to say. 0nut�*s dangerous driving cost the lives ofjunior sullivan's parents, elaine and david. he taught me pretty much more than anyone else has ever taught me, which is what i loved about him. he sort of gave me all the life lessons that you would expect from a parent, from a father. mum was the complete opposite. small, feisty, she had that sort of infectious laugh.

she epitomised that sort of feisty, sort of strong character. as part of this process, he asked to beinterviewed. during the interview, he said if you words about how he feels and how it affected him. are you sure you are all right to watch it?— all right to watch it? yeah, yeah. there is a — all right to watch it? yeah, yeah. there is a million _ all right to watch it? yeah, yeah. there is a million things - all right to watch it? yeah, yeah. there is a million things i - all right to watch it? yeah, yeah. there is a million things i can - all right to watch it? yeah, yeah. | there is a million things i can tell people, you know, but! there is a million things i can tell people, you know, but i want to apologise. i want to say i am really sorry. micro are you all right? yeah. makes you realise he is a human — yeah. makes you realise he is a human. does not make a difference necessarily— human. does not make a difference necessarily in terms of howl human. does not make a difference necessarily in terms of how i feel about_ necessarily in terms of how i feel about him. — necessarily in terms of how i feel about him, but it does not take away from what _ about him, but it does not take away from what he has done. if people look at _ from what he has done. if people look at it— from what he has done. if people look at it and think, actually, i don't — look at it and think, actually, i don't want _ look at it and think, actually, i don't want to be that person, i don't _ don't want to be that person, i don't want _ don't want to be that person, i

don't want to be that person, i don't want to be that person, i don't want to be in prison, i don't want _ don't want to be in prison, i don't want to— don't want to be in prison, i don't want to have _ don't want to be in prison, i don't want to have killed three people, i don't _ want to have killed three people, i don't want — want to have killed three people, i don't want that on my conscience, look at _ don't want that on my conscience, look at what it is doing to the sky, look at what it is doing to the sky, look at _ look at what it is doing to the sky, look at where he is, something the they will_ look at where he is, something the they will take something away from it. regardless of how i feel about him, _ it. regardless of how i feel about him. he _ it. regardless of how i feel about him, he has got to live with the fact he — him, he has got to live with the fact he has_ him, he has got to live with the fact he has killed three people and affected _ fact he has killed three people and affected loads of other people's lives _ affected loads of other people's lives. if— affected loads of other people's lives. ., ., ., ~ affected loads of other people's lives. ., ., .,~ ., lives. if we want to take one thing that has affected _ lives. if we want to take one thing that has affected me _ lives. if we want to take one thing that has affected me most - lives. if we want to take one thing that has affected me most about. lives. if we want to take one thing i that has affected me most about the case, it has got to be going to the families. like, someone getting them killed.

unfortunately, it will take more accidents— unfortunately, it will take more accidents for people to realise, that is— accidents for people to realise, that is the sad truth about it. | that is the sad truth about it. i have that is the sad truth about it. have done that is the sad truth about it. i have done it myself before. your phone flashes, you kind of have a quick look, but now i get a real anger in my stomach. i am just like, i want to shout at them and be like this is what can happen, this is what you could do to someone. you can rein people's lives, you can enter people's lives. i can rein people's lives, you can enter people's lives.— can rein people's lives, you can enter people's lives. i have issue tickets to people _ enter people's lives. i have issue tickets to people many _ enter people's lives. i have issue tickets to people many times - enter people's lives. i have issue - tickets to people many times before, you get— tickets to people many times before, you get the _ tickets to people many times before, you get the attitude, _ tickets to people many times before, you get the attitude, but _ tickets to people many times before, you get the attitude, but i— tickets to people many times before, you get the attitude, but i do- tickets to people many times before, you get the attitude, but i do not- you get the attitude, but i do not think— you get the attitude, but i do not think these — you get the attitude, but i do not think these people _ you get the attitude, but i do not think these people realise - you get the attitude, but i do not think these people realise how. think these people realise how severe — think these people realise how severe the _ think these people realise how severe the consequences - think these people realise how| severe the consequences could think these people realise how- severe the consequences could be. it severe the consequences could be. happened to me. you know, here i severe the consequences could be.- happened to me. you know, here i am. that is the reason i am in prison. for what? that is the reason i am in prison. forwhat? ruin that is the reason i am in prison. for what? ruin your life, that is the reason i am in prison. forwhat? ruin your life, ruined many other people's lives, to have people like me and other emergency

service personnel still think about it, driving past year and thinking about that day and the victims. tote about that day and the victims. we all hear that thing on your phone and think— all hear that thing on your phone and think what is that? i can practically guarantee whatever it was“ _ practically guarantee whatever it was” it— practically guarantee whatever it was” it is— practically guarantee whatever it was,, it is not important at all, and _ was,, it is not important at all, and certainly not enough to risk killing _ and certainly not enough to risk killing people. ruining families, ruining — killing people. ruining families, ruining your own life. i do not know what _ ruining your own life. i do not know what else _ ruining your own life. i do not know what else to — ruining your own life. i do not know what else to say. there is my cheeky girl. you could

so easily not have been here. hello. for some of us, there is some rain in the forecast for the week ahead, but perhaps not for all of us. some southern areas are likely to stay pretty much dry. 0ne place where rain is looking likely is in birmingham and the surrounding area for the commonwealth games. the increasing chance of rain into sunday and monday, but it won't be raining all the time. it's not going to be complete wash—out. the rain coming courtesy of this stripe of cloud that you can see developing on the satellite picture from friday afternoon in association with this frontal system that will be working in from the north—west for the first

part of the weekend — bringing a lot of cloud, some mist and murk and hill fog, some quite humid conditions and some sporadic outbreaks of rain drifting out of scotland and northern ireland, down into northern england, parts of north wales. there could even be the odd spot of rain getting into parts of east anglia through saturday afternoon. brightening up across northern areas. to the south, staying mainly dry with some sunny spells. very warm here, 26 or maybe 27 degrees. now, as we head through saturday night, it is going to be quite a warm and humid affair. we'll continue to see a lot of cloud, some mist and murk and hill fog, and some outbreaks of rain continuing to drift in from the west, especially across this central slice of the uk. those are the temperatures for sunday morning, a very muggy start to the day. we will see this cloudy and damp and quite murky weather tracking eastwards. a bit of uncertainty aboutjust how far north and how far south the rain will get, but not very much rain at all getting into southern counties of england, where we really do need some. it may well brighten up from the west as we go through sunday afternoon.

a little fresher in the north—west of the uk, but still pretty warm further south and east, including at wembley for the euro 2022 final. the chance of a spot of rain. it is most likely to stay dry if rather cloudy. now, as we move into monday we've got a weak ridge of high pressure trying to push its way in, but already another frontal system arriving from the west so that will once again thicken up the cloud, it'll bring some outbreaks of rain northwards and eastwards. again not much rain getting into southern counties.. there may be some for a time. still pretty warm down to the south, a little cooler further north. through monday night into tuesday, these various frontal systems continue to journey north—eastwards across the uk, continuing to bring some outbreaks of rain, the rain especially across central and northern areas. again quite a familiar pattern — not much of that rain getting down into the south. there will also be some sunny spells and quite a warm—feeling day on tuesday — 19 or 20 for scotland, 21 degrees in northern ireland, england and wales around

the middle 20s celsius. into wednesday, it looks like we'll have this area of low pressure drifting across the north of the country, so again that focuses the rain across northern parts. it could be that a frontal system brings some patchy wet weather down towards the south. again some spells of sunshine and again some relative warmth, 27 degrees there in the capital. now, as we head towards the end of the week and towards the following weekend, it looks like this area of high pressure is going to start to build its way in from the west. the winds will be coming in from the west or the north—west, so that means it's not going to be particularly warm. some of those temperatures will come down little bit, frontal systems bringing rain at times into the north of the uk. so that's where we have the greatest chance of wet weather. very little much—needed rain down towards the south. it should stay dry here and with that change in the wind direction, it is going to feel a little cooler as well. that's all from me. by for now.

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tonight at ten — we're live in birminghan where the hosts england made it a golden start to the 22nd commonwealth games. commentator: alex yee of england wins the first gold! _ alex yee stormed to victory in the triathlon — taking the first gold of the games. commentator: he has successfully defended the — commentator: he has successfully defended the title. _ para—cyclist neil fachie won

scotland's first gold medal in the velodrome.