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Van driver 'dozed off' on the M6 and killed his friend after drinking whisky behind the wheel
hereA breath test showed a reading of 85 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath – more than twice the legal limit of 35 microgrammes.Gill, of Beardwood Brow, Blackburn, had been working as a delivery driver, picking his van up in Preston before making deliveries in the Midlands, and was driving back north on the M6 near Knutsford in Cheshire when he crashed on the evening of August 21, 2018.He pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to causing death by careless driving while under the influence of excess alcohol.Jailing him for five years, Judge Steven Everett said: "This was not just drinking and driving, this was drinking whilst driving."You were tired and struggling to stay awake and yet you carried on driving whilst
