Company Found Guilty after Roadworker Deaths

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Two Wearside roadworkers - who were killed while putting out traffic cones on the A1- were not properly supervised, a Court has ruled. Traffic Management North East has been ordered to pay fines and costs of £18,000 after Anthony Corkin and Kevin Barker died on the roadside at Leeming in North Yorkshire.

An Asda lorry ploughed into the back of their flat bed truck in the early hours of 9 August 2000.

In a separate case, Asda driver Brian Smith was jailed for two years at Teesside Crown Cou... (9 more words)

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