Eddie Stobart lorry driver hospitalises woman after falling asleep at wheel

Lorry driver accelerated into stationary traffic before smashing into two cars caught by dashcam

Eddie Stobart lorry driver hospitalises woman after falling asleep at wheel
The shocking scene was caught by the dashcam of another motorist. Image: West Midlands Police.

Mariusz Wlazlo was jailed for 16 months and banned from driving after ploughing his HGV into two cars at 43mph on the M6 between junction 8 and junction 7, near Great Barr, Birmingham.

The incident, caught on dashcam footage from the lorry and from another nearby car, shows how the 47-year-old sped up at the point of impact.

A black Volkswagen Polo is forced into a silver Toyota Verso in front, before being forced across the other two lanes.

The driver of the Polo, a woman in her fifties, spent weeks in hospital to be treated for broken ribs and fractures to her vertebrae.

Wlazlo told police: “I think I went to sleep for a moment, I can’t explain as I don’t remember.

“It was like a dream.”

“Devastating consequences”

Before the incident, Wlzalo held a clean UK driving licence and no record of motoring offences in his home country of Poland.

PC Gareth Philips, from the Central Motorway Police Group, commented: “The collision has had a devastating impoact on the victim in the Polo.

“Although she has made a physical recovery she now feels unable to drive on the motorway.

“Wlazlo was clearly not paying attention and indeed was accelerating into stationary traffic at the time of impact.

“If the speed he had been travelling had been any higher, this collision would likely have had fatal consequences.”

Wlazlo was sentenced to 16 months in jail, banned from driving for three years and eight months, and ordered to take an extended re-test.

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