A MOTORIST who killed another driver when he pulled out in front of him after mistaking the oncoming lane for a slip road was jailed for 15 months yesterday.
Foreign student Abdel Salook, 24, was found guilty of causing the fatal accident, off Newcastle's Tyne Bridge on October 23, last year.
Newcastle Crown Court was told that the Israeli national, a pharmacy student at Sunderland University, drove his Nissan into the path of a Peugeot 306, killing 43-year-old driver Leslie Smiles.
Salook was also banned from driving for five years.
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