Driver pleads guilty over M62 crash which killed two people

The driver of a caravan transporter has pleaded guilty to causing the deaths of two people by dangerous driving in an accident on the M62 in 2018.

By Alexandra Wood

Published 26th Oct 2020, 10:55 BST

Updated 26th Oct 2020, 11:44 BST

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.

The 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.