Scots trucker killed mum of four after turning 16-tonne tanker into path of her car

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A killer trucker who turned his gas tanker into the path of a car driven by a mother of four, causing a horrific fatal smash, is facing jail.

Ian Moorhouse, 63, pulled out from a queue of traffic at nearly 25 miles an hour in a bid to make a right turn into a side road.

Because he failed to slow, stop, or drop back, his view ahead was blocked by a tractor and trailer in front of him, and an oncoming silver VW Golf driven by his victim, Amanda Boag, was completely obscured.Mrs Boag, 39, desperately swerved left but was unable to avoid being struck by Moorhouse's 16-tonne lorry.Other motorists who rushed to her aid found her trapped and unresponsive in the wreckage.An air ambulance was scrambled but Mrs Boag, who had "catastrophic" injuries, was pronounced dead at the scene by an emergency doctor.Falkirk Sheriff Court heard that dashcam footage showed Moorhouse - who was driving eastbound on the A811 road near Arprior, Stirlingshire - "looking relaxed" with the radio on in the background, before making the turn towards the village of Kippen, where he was due to make his second to last delivery of the day.

The indicators of his Grangemouth-based Flogas lorry can be heard clicking, and Mrs Boag's oncoming car can be seen for only a split second before a deafening collision sends it careering into the mouth of the sideroad and onto the left hand verge, debris "flying across the carriageway".Moorhouse later told police: "I started to pull over and saw the car at the same time as the collision.