Scots lorry driver who killed mum of four after turning 16-tonne tanker into path of her car jailed

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A lorry driver who turned into a junction on the A811 near Arnprior without being able to see what was coming, killing a mum-of-four, was jailed this week.

Ian Moorhouse, 63, had made a “deliberate decision” to turn across the road without being able to see what was coming and into the path of Amanda Boag’s car.

Driving east, he pulled out from a queue of traffic at nearly 25 miles an hour to make a right turn into a side road.But his view ahead was blocked by a tractor and trailer, and an oncoming silver VW Golf driven by his victim, Amanda Boag, was completely obscured.Mrs Boag, 39, swerved desperately but was unable to avoid Moorhouse’s 16-tonne gas tanker.Motorists who rushed to her aid found her trapped and unresponsive.Mrs Boag, who had “catastrophic” injuries, was pronounced dead at the scene by an emergency doctor.Dashcam footage showed Moorhouse – who was driving eastbound on the A811 road near Arprior – “looking relaxed”, with the radio on in the background, before making the fateful turn towards the village of Kippen, where he was due to make his penultimate delivery.The indicators of his Grangemouth-based Flogas lorry could be heard clicking, and Mrs Boag’s oncoming car could be seen for only a split second before a deafening collision sent it careering into the mouth of the sideroad and onto the left hand verge, debris “flying across the carriageway”.Click here for more news and sport from the Stirling area.Sheriff Simon Collins QC, who watched the footage on screens at Falkirk Sheriff Court, said he “had difficuilty” with a defence submission that the crash had been the result of “momentary inattention” by Moorhouse.He said: “He didn’t seem as if he was distracted by something, or he looked down at