Driver guilty over crash that killed five people

An Italian tourer has been convicted of causing the deaths of 5 people, including his four-year-old son, successful a clang successful the northbound eastbound of Scotland.

Alfredo Ciociola, 50, drove a minibus onto the incorrect broadside of the roadworthy and collided head-on with a car connected the A96 adjacent Keith successful July 2018.

Three passengers successful the car were killed, on with Ciociola's person Frances Saliba his lad Lorenzo.

Ciociola was convicted of causing decease by careless driving aft a trial.

He had denied the much superior complaint of causing decease by unsafe driving.

The 3 radical who died successful the car - Audrey Appleby, Evalyn Collie and Edward Reid - had been returning from a enactment dancing nighttime successful Elgin astatine the clip of the crash. The car's driver, Morag Smith, was earnestly injured.

Ciociola had denied that helium had fallen dormant oregon repeatedly driven onto the incorrect broadside of the A96.

The naval serviceman was extradited from Italy aft failing to be an earlier tribunal quality successful Scotland. He volition beryllium sentenced astatine a aboriginal date.

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