Driver pleads guilty over M62 crash which killed two people
Jack Beston, 24, of Duncombe Drive, Driffield, admitted two counts of causing death by dangerous driving at Hull Crown Court on Monday.
The vehicle, which was carrying a static caravan, crashed through the central reservation of the M62 near the Ouse Bridge, Goole, in April 2018, hitting an oncoming Lexus.
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Hide AdThe driver, Nigel Eley, 41, from Urmston in Greater Manchester, was pronounced dead at the scene.
John-Paul Cassidy, 37, the front seat passenger, died in hospital 10 days later.
A second defendant, Michael Holgate, of Munstead Way, Brough, pleaded not guilty to two counts of manslaughter through gross negligence and two counts of aiding and abetting causing death by driving whilst uninsured.
Beston will be sentenced following the trial of Mr Holgate.