British building contractor Gary Hart (37) has been sentenced to five years in prison for causing the deaths of ten people by dangerous driving relating to the Selby train crash last year.
On February 28th, Hart, described by police as "a mobile catastrophe waiting to happen," caused the death of ten people when he fell asleep at the wheel of his Land Rover.
He had virtually no sleep the night before because he had spent most of the evening talking to a woman he had met on the Web, and he got up at dawn to drive from Lincolnshire to his job in Greater Manchester.
His car left the M62 motorway near Selby in North Yorkshire and plunged down an embankment and onto train tracks. It was hit by a southbound, Great North Eastern Railway express train. The train was then deflected into the path of a northbound coal train whose driver was killed in the crash.