RUNAWAY TRACTOR FARMER FACES JAIL
Daily Record|January 18, 2023
Man crushed to death after catastrophic brake failure
VIC RODRICK
RUNAWAY TRACTOR FARMER FACES JAIL

A FARMER is facing jail after a tractor careered down a hill "with the force of a rollercoaster", crushing and killing a motorist.

Andrew Grant admitted causing the death of Francis Mooney by allowing his employee Christopher Nimmo to use the tractor and a trailer - which both had defective brakes - to transport a 13-ton digger from Edinburgh to Glasgow in 2016.

This story is from the January 18, 2023 edition of Daily Record.

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