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Driver of garbage truck that killed Clan Carthy schoolboy sentenced to one year and seven months
The driver of the garbage truck that overturned, killing Clan Carthy Primary School student Benjamin Bair four years ago, was sentenced to one year and seven months for manslaughter.
Alten Brooks was arrested and charged in 2019 after the seven-year-old boy was crushed to death on October 28 on the school grounds.
Reports are that about 4:30 pm, Benjamin was at school when the garbage truck that had been picking up trash hit a taxi and then overturned on the boy.
It was reported that at the time of the incident, the truck was left unmanned and that it slid down a slope.
The driver initially fled the scene.
Thompson-Herah gunning for world title in Hungary
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