A 46-year-old Portuguese man, Paulo Jorge Nogueria da Silva, was charged with six counts of death by dangerous driving. On 10 February 2009, a prosecution at
Chester Crown Court said that da Silva was not paying attention to the road when his lorry ploughed into the Toyota Previa with the family who was killed inside. Sergeant David Cox, motorway supervisor for
Cheshire Police, was one of the first officers at the scene of the crash and spoke about how horrific the scene was. He said that the scene was so horrific that the make of the car or the number of people inside was impossible to determine. Furthermore, he said that specially trained officers had to be called to remove the remains of the dead family from the car. Da Silva denied the six charges of causing death by dangerous driving and six alternative charges of causing death by careless driving. == References ==