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A trucker who was busy checking his phone seconds before his lorry slammed into the back of a line of traffic killing a great-grandmother has been jailed for five years.
Former soldier David Shields crashed into Yvonne Blackman's car as she sat stationary on the A75 in Dumfries in February 2017.
The 66-year-old missionary worker never recovered and died weeks later in hospital.
Yesterday outside the High Court in Glasgow, Yvonne's husband of 38 years, Ralph Blackman, 78, urged drivers never to use their mobile phones while driving.
Mr Blackman, from Lockerbie, an HGV driver for 40 years, said: “I hope this sentence deters any drivers from doing the same. They should realise the suffering and hurt it causes to the victim's family.