“I have to live with this for the rest of my life,” Scottish truck driver Ion Onut lamented in the Sunderland Echo. “By being on my phone for a long period of time and then realizing the traffic ahead of me had stopped, I had absolutely zero chance to act and pull my brakes on. When I saw the videos of what happened, it was unimaginable and hard to see. It was so disturbing knowing that was me in that truck plowing through the cars.”
In July 2021, the then-41-year-old caused a devastating crash in North East England while browsing dating websites on his mobile phone. He failed to notice that traffic ahead had stopped and plowed into a line of cars at about 58 mph (93 kph), triggering a fiery multi-vehicle collision. Three people were killed instantly, and several others were injured.
