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A Labour peer who sent and received text messages minutes before he was involved in a fatal crash on the M1 has been jailed for 12 weeks. | A Labour peer who sent and received text messages minutes before he was involved in a fatal crash on the M1 has been jailed for 12 weeks. |
Lord Ahmed, 51, was driving his Jaguar when he hit a stationary car in the outside lane of the motorway on Christmas Day 2007. | |
The driver of the vehicle, Martyn Gombar, 28, was killed. | The driver of the vehicle, Martyn Gombar, 28, was killed. |
Lord Ahmed, of Rotherham, was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court. He had admitted driving dangerously. | |
The crash happened near to junction 35 of the southbound carriageway at Rotherham. | |
Mr Gombar was Slovakian but was living in Leigh, Greater Manchester, at the time of his death. | Mr Gombar was Slovakian but was living in Leigh, Greater Manchester, at the time of his death. |
His Audi car was stationary facing the wrong way in the third lane of the motorway because it had been involved in another crash. | |
One motorist had already clipped it with his car and another had to take emergency action to avoid the vehicle. | |
The court had heard how Lord Ahmed sent and received a series of five text messages while driving in the dark at speeds of, and above, 60mph along a 17-mile stretch of the motorway. | |
The judge sentencing him said that the text messaging had finished before the accident took place and was not connected to the fatal incident. | |
Lord Ahmed's elderly mother and his wife were passengers in the car at the time. | |
He will serve half of his sentence in jail and half on licence. He was also banned from driving for a year. |