An HGV driver was looking at porn on his phone just seconds before he killed a father of two in a motorway collision, a court has heard.

Photos of nude women appeared on Neil Platt’s X feed moments before the horrific crash near junction four of the M58 in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, on May 17 last year.

Platt, 43, was ‘heavily distracted’ and failed to notice stationary traffic ahead of him, striking Danny Aitchison’s Hyundai Kona car as the 46-year-old waited at the end of a queue.

Mr Aitchison’s vehicle was pushed into the rear of a tanker and his car exploded into flames on impact.

Preston Crown Court heard that Platt persistently viewed content on his phone during a three-hour journey from Dumfries, Scotland, along the M6 and then when he joined the westbound carriageway of the M58.

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