{"id":24187,"date":"2022-12-13T06:35:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T11:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=24187"},"modified":"2022-12-13T06:35:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T11:35:25","slug":"driver-jailed-for-crash-that-left-five-people-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2022\/12\/13\/driver-jailed-for-crash-that-left-five-people-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver jailed for crash that left five people dead"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Italian tourist convicted of causing the deaths of five people – including his own four-year-old son – in a crash in north east Scotland has been jailed.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Alfredo Ciociola, 50, drove a minibus on the wrong side of the road and collided head-on with a car on the A96 near Keith in July 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Three passengers in the car were killed, along with Ciociola’s friend Frances Saliba and his son Lorenzo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He was jailed for three years at the High Court in Livingston.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He was also disqualified from driving for 10 years in the UK.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Naval officer Ciociola was convicted of causing death by careless driving last month after a trial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He had denied that he had fallen asleep or repeatedly driven on to the wrong side of the A96.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Judge Lord Mulholland told Ciociola the consequences of his driving had been “catastrophic”, and the victim impact statements were “heartbreaking”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Edward Reid, Audrey Appleby, Evalyn Collie and Frances Saliba died<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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The three people who died in the car – Audrey Appleby, Evalyn Collie and Edward Reid – had been returning from a dancing event at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The car’s driver, Morag Smith, was badly injured.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In a statement released through Digby Brown Solicitors she said she welcomed the sentence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“However it also strange because in reality the damage is done and the length of time Ciociola spends behind bars makes no real impact on my day-to-day life,” she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“I now just want to get on with rebuilding some kind of future.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ciociola was extradited from Italy after failing to attend an earlier court appearance in Scotland.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The jail sentence was backdated to 9 May when he was taken into custody in the UK.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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