Emotional tributes have been paid to a businessman killed in a three-vehicle crash.
David Joseph Mitchell, 53, from Waverton, died after suffering serious injuries following the accident on the B5305 at Westward, near Wigton.
He was driving a Ford Transit van and was involved in a collision with a Scania HGV and a Skoda Octavia taxi, which was not carrying passengers.
Police investigations into the collision are ongoing but it is thought the HGV was reversing when it collided with the van, which hit the taxi.
Mr Mitchell’s family said: “It is with deepest sadness that David has been so tragically taken from us.
“David was hard working, family-orientated, loved life and will be sorely missed by all that knew him.”
Jan Mayer, director of the Dalston Hall Hotel, near Carlisle, employed Mr Mitchell – who ran his own business – to carry out maintenance work on the hotel’s washing machines and dishwashers.
He said: “Whenever he was around he was always happy, always jovial and he had a cracking laugh.”
The driver of the Skoda, also a local man, was taken to the Cumberland Infirmary, with non-life threatening injuries. The HGV driver, also a local man, was not injured.
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