A MUM was killed while pushing her daughter’s pram after she was hit in the head by crane equipment hanging off the side off a lorry, a court heard.
Rebecca Ableman had left a farm shop in Willingham, Cambridgeshire, when the horror unfolded.
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The 30-year-old was pushing her daughter, two, on a footpath when Kevin Miller drove past in his lorry, jurors heard.
Peterborough Crown Court heard the crane equipment he was transporting was not secured properly and was “plainly potentially lethal”.
The metal, which was hanging over the edge of the lorry, then struck Rebecca in the head as Miller moved past her, it was said.
She suffered “very serious head and brain injuries in the September 2022 crash and died three weeks later.
Thomas Butler, who was driving along the road at the time, told the court he had noticed the unsecured equipment.
He said: “[I] thought it looked horrendous and I told my wife it doesn’t look all right.”
Mr Butler told jurors he then saw a woman lying in the road and “people running all over the place”.
The court heard Miller was unaware there had been a collision until he was arrested just over two hours later.
He told police he would have stopped had he known, adding: “What’s happened mate? I ain’t hit no one.”
The court was told Miller had been transporting scrap metal from King’s Lynn docks to two Network Rail depots in Essex and Cambridgeshire.
He denies causing death by dangerous driving.
The trial continues.
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