A British truck driver denies that he was typing a text message just before he was involved in a fatal accident which killed a pedestrian.
A truck driver has been accused of killing a pedestrian while typing a text message on his mobile phone.
Paul Browning of Kenley, Surrey, pleaded guilty to a charge of causing death by dangerous driving, after hitting Paul Hammond, 24, in Essex.
Browning, 36, was driving a goods vehicle at the time. He denies that he was typing a text message just before the accident happened, so a trial will be held to rule on the issue.
This is thought to be the first case where it has been claimed that a fatality occurred because a driver was typing a text message.
Last August, an inquest heard that a policeman died in a car crash after reading a text message on his mobile phone. At the time, the UK Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents claimed that at least 14 drivers have died because of inappropriate mobile phone use.
