M20 crash driver could be deported

A van driver who fell asleep at the wheel and caused a pile-up on the M20 is beginning a prison term.

As the KM reported last week, Stanislaw Wylecial was jailed for 14 months for the accident which left people with devastating injuries.

The picture, above, shows the aftermath of the crash. Wylecial could now face deportation back to his native country of Poland because the sentence is for more than a year.

Maidstone Crown Court heard Wylecial, 46, who had undiagnosed obstructive sleep apnoea at the time, ploughed into the back of a lorry on an unlit part of the M20 at about 70mph in October 2015. Other drivers did their best to swerve round Wylecial’s van in the middle of the road.

But the driver of one van crashed into stationary cars and two people who had moved onto the hard shoulder.

Judge Jeremy Carey told Wylecial: “It is remarkable, to say the least, that there were no fatalities.

“I reach the sure conclusion you fell asleep at the wheel of your vehicle. The duration was short but had devastating consequences.”

Wylecial, a bakery and delivery driver, was banned from driving for four years and seven months.

The father-of-two, from Sevenoaks, denied dangerous driving and four charges of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, but was convicted.