Cole was jailed for 42 weeks and banned from driving for 21 months
Dash cam footage shows the moment a lorry driver ploughed into a vehicle and killed a horse in a horror motorway crash. Nicholas Cole, 47, failed to notice the broken down horsebox on the M1 and smashed straight into it at around 6.30pm on July 17 last year.
The driver and passengers were waiting on the bank and were unharmed - but their horse was sadly killed. Cole said he had been listening to the radio before the collision and the next thing he knew, he saw the Highways vehicle and swerved to avoid it. Cole, of Stourbridge, West Mids, was jailed for 42 weeks and banned from driving for 21 months at Northampton Crown Court. PS Richard Hill, from Northamptonshire Police’s Roads Policing Team, said: “As people will be able to see from the footage, this was a shocking collision that sadly resulted in a horse being killed.
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