Monday 10th October 2016  Reading Berkshire :File Pictures from Incident : West Ilsley on 10 August. A lorry driver has pleaded guilty to killing a mother and three children in an eight-vehicle crash in Berkshire.<br />
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Tomasz Kroker, 30, collided with the victims' car on the A34 between Chieveley and West Ilsley on 10 August.<br />
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Reading Crown Court heard he was distracted by using a mobile phone.<br />
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Kroker, who admitted to four counts of causing death by dangerous driving and one count of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, will be sentenced on 31 October.<br />
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Image caption Tracy Houghton, left, her son Ethan, stepdaughter Aimee Goldsmith and her second son Josh died in an eight-vehicle collision on the A34 near Chieveley on 10 August<br />
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The court was told it would be shown video shot by a camera inside the lorry cab which shows Mr Kroker using the phone, and &quot;the fast-approaching queue of vehicles.&quot;<br />
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Tracy Houghton, 45, from Dunstable, her two sons, Ethan, 13, and Joshua, 11, and her partner's daughter Aimee Goldsmith, 11, died in the crash.<br />
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A man was flown to hospital by air ambulance with serious injuries.<br />
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A further 11 people sustained minor injuries in the cash, which closed the northbound carriageway for about 12 hours.<br />
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Kroker, of Trajan Walk, Andover, was remanded in custody to appear for sentencing by a High Court judge sitting at Reading Crown Court.