Bath tipper truck tragedy: two men released on bail

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Two men arrested after a 32-tonne tipper truck killed four people have been released on bail pending further inquiries.

Driver Philip Potter, 19, was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and manslaughter by gross negligence.

A 28-year-old man, believed to be his boss, was also arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of causing manslaughter by gross negligence.

Four people died after being struck by the Scania truck on Lansdown Lane in Upper Weston, Bath, just after 4pm on 9 February.

The truck first hit and killed Mitzi Rosanna Steady, four, from Bath, and her grandmother, who remains in a critical condition in Southmead hospital in Bristol.

It went on to collide with a number of other vehicles on the road before overturning on to a Volvo at the bottom of the hill, killing the three men inside.

They were Robert Parker, 59, from Cwmbran, electricity company director Philip Allen, 52, and taxi driver Stephen Vaughan, 34, both from Swansea.

Potter, from Brinkworth in Wiltshire, was transporting sand and gravel down Lansdown Lane at the time the incident happened.

A spokesman for Avon and Somerset police said: “The two men arrested yesterday have been released on police bail pending further inquiries.”