An accident investigator removing a briefcase from the smashed up Landrover that caused the Selby rail disaster in which 13 people perished *...
{"Image ImageDescription": "An accident investigator, removing a briefcase from the smashed up Landrover that caused the Selby rail disaster in which 13 people perished.  * 28/11/01:  The motorist accused of causing the deaths of 10 men in the Selby rail disaster fell asleep at the wheel after staying up all night chatting on the phone to a woman he met on the Internet, a court heard.   Self-employed builder Gary Hart claimed he was buzzing with excitement about his relationship with Kristeen Panter (corr) as he drove from his home in Strubby, Lincs, along the M62 on February 28 this year, a jury was told. But the prosecution allege that Hart was exhausted after spending all night talking to his new-found companion and fell asleep while driving on the motorway. 13/12/01  Gary Hart, 37, has been convicted at Leeds Crown Court of ten charges of causing death by dangerous driving after his Land Rover and trailer plunged off the M62 motorway and on to the East Coast main line.  Moments later it was hit by a southbound GNER express train travelling at 117mph which then collided with a fully-laden coal train which was carrying 1,600 tonnes of coal in the opposite direction.   11/1/02: the Land Rover at the scence of the train crash at Great Heck, near Selby. Gary Hart, from Strubby, Lincolnshire who is due to be sentenced at Leeds Crown Court after he was found guilty of causing the deaths of 10 men in the Selby train crash. The jury decided he had fallen asleep at the wheel of his Land Rover before it plunged off the M62 and onto the main East Coast railway line on February 28 last year near the North Yorkshire village of Great Heck.  11/01/02 Gary Hart, the driver convicted of causing the deaths of 10 people in the Selby rail crash, was jailed for five years at Leeds Crown Court. 14/04/2003:  Builder Gary Hart, 37, who was jailed after being found guilty of 10 counts of causing death by dangerous driving at Leeds Crown Court and sentenced to five years  imprisonment, is seeking permission Monday A", "Image Copyright": "PA Images"}