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TWO teenagers were killed after a car skidded on a known Scottish motorway’s “greasy corner”, a court heard today.
Charles Gray, then 17, was taken to hospital with serious injures after hisVauxhall Corsa – which he was driving – hit a lorry and then a crash barrier on the A91, just after leaving Bannockburn Interchange on the M9/M80.
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The collision occurred around 3.50 pm on March 17 last year.
Rear passengers Jayden McConnell, 17, and Kyle Marshall, 19, from Stirling, suffered multiple injuries and died at the scene.
And a front seat passenger, Lauryn Moir, then 17, was also trapped in the wreckage.
The trial began today at Stirling Sheriff Court.
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An eyewitness told the jury that Gray had been driving normally before losing control.
Sean Meiklejohn, 32, said he saw what happened in the rear view mirror of his car as he came off the interchange.
Mr Meiklejohn, a joiner, said: “It pulled onto the roundabout behind me and followed me round to the same junction and that’s where it spun off.”
Prosecutor Anna Robertson asked: “At that point did you have any concerns?”
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Mr Meiklejohn said: “No. He was just driving normal in my opinion.”
The joiner said it had been raining and the road was damp.
He told Ms Robertson: “I didn’t feel he was speeding. I know that corner can be greasy on occasions and I had my family in the car.
“I came off the roundabout and I looked in my rear view mirror and I saw the black Corsa come round the corner and it skidded.
“I saw him over-correct and the car going from side to side.
“I looked back in my mirror again and saw the car bounce about off the barrier.
“He drifted over the road. I think he just crossed the line.”
Mr Meiklejohn said that when he saw the Corsa spin, he assumed it had hit the oncoming lorry, a large tipper.
He added: “I’d say it [the Corsa] wasn’t speeding, [but] driving too fast for the conditions. It was damp and greasy.”
He told Tony Graham KC, counsel for Gray, that when he was a young driver, he had also experienced his car “slide a bit” at the same corner.
He said: “It took me by surprise. I was lucky and it wasn’t too bad. It was greasy at the time.”
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Gray, of Bannockburn, denies causing his passengers’ deaths and injuries by careless driving.
The trial – before Sheriff Euan Gosney and jury – continues.
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