Lorry driver pleads guilty in death of mother struck by unsecured crane equipment

Rebecca Ableman, 30, a mother of one, was fatally struck by unsecured crane equipment and died from traumatic brain injury three weeks later, leaving her two-year-old daughter and fiancé bereaved.

On a quiet September morning in Cambridgeshire in 2022, a young mother pushing her daughter's pram was struck and killed by crane equipment that had not been properly secured to a passing lorry — a failure of ordinary duty that ended an ordinary life. Rebecca Ableman, 30, an NHS healthcare assistant and mother to two-year-old Autumn, died three weeks later from traumatic brain injury, leaving behind a fiancé and a child who will grow up without her. Nearly four years on, the driver, Kevin Miller, has pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving, and the courts now prepare to reckon with

Lorry driver pleads guilty in death of mother struck by unsecured crane equipment

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