Public FreakOut

Shocking footage shows moment texting lorry driver crashes into prison have released shocking dashcam footage of the moment a lorry driver, distracted by his mobile phone, crashed into the back of a prison van in Sussex. 59-year-old Derek Holland from Seaford, who admitted his driving had been “atrocious“, has been disqualified from driving and jailed for three-and-a-half years. Three people were injured after the collision on the A27 near Lewes last August. Holland had been driving for four hours before the collision happened. The prosecution claimed during those four hours Holland had used his mobile phone almost “persistently“. The lorry driver wasn’t using his seatbelt and had used a device to stop the alarm from sounding. Two cameras fitted to his cab show him distracted and bending forward to send and receive messages, until the collision just outside Lewes on the A27. Holland had driven at speed into the back of a prison security van that had broken down on the dual carriageway just outside