car on a motorway has been jailed. Mary McCann's four-year-old daughter Lily and 10-year-old son Smaller died in a collision on the M1 just after 11pm on August 9 last year while driving back from a birthday celebration, Stoke-on-Trent Live reports.
Aylesbury Crown Court heard Lily may have survived the crash if she had been strapped in with her seatbelt. Smaller, who died on his birthday, was also said to be almost 'certain' to have lived if he had a seatbelt on.
Both children were pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Mirror. Stephen Shay, prosecuting, said: "Shortly before the collision, the lorry was in lane one and the lorry was moving into lane two.
The defendant was driving in lane two."For no obvious reason, the defendant drifted into lane one. She steered right in an unsuccessful attempt to jump the lorry.
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