Van Driver Jailed for Killing Student in London Crash

0:00On March 6th, 827-year-old van driver from Southampton has been jailed for 8 years after killing a university student in a central, London crash. Christopher Jackson caused the death of 20-year-old Alaya Muhammad when he lost control of an electric van he was driving for the first time, confusing the accelerator for the break. That morning on March 18th last year, Jackson picked up the van for work near Bushhouse. Once after starting it, he sped into an iron gate in a pedestrian zone on the strand, which flew off and seriously injured two bystanders, I, 28-year-old woman and a 24-year-old man. Alaya, a second-year physics and philosophy student at King's College, London, was sitting on a nearby bench when the van hit her after crossing A. Flower bed. She died at the scene despite emergency efforts, while her friend confronted Jackson, who admitted he had no control as the whole thing unfolded in. After six seconds, her mother spoke in court about the endless nightmare of losing her daughter so violently, describing an unbearable void and moments of false hope, from police

1:03at the scene. The family praised Alaya as an amazing daughter and friend missed by everyone. The judge accepted Jackson's immediate remorse, noting he was an ordinary hardworking father of three, caught in a tragic mix-up. Alongside the eight-year term for causing death by dangerous driving, he faces concurrent sentences for the injuries, a driving ban extended over five, years, and a mandatory retest upon release, underscoring the lasting fallout for all involved, years, and a mandatory retest upon release, underscoring the lasting fallout for all involved, years, and a mandatory retest upon release, underscoring the lasting fallout for all involved, years, and a mandatory retest upon release, underscoring the lasting fallout for all involved, underscoring the lasting fallout for all involved, underscoring the lasting fallout for all involved, underscoring the lasting fallout for all involved, underscoring the lasting fallout for all involved, underscoring the lasting fallout for all involved, underscoring the lasting fallout for all involved, underscoring the last fallout for all involved, underscoring the lasting fallout for all involved, underscoring the last