Telford lorry driver faces trial over road death
A lorry driver will face trial later this year after denying causing the death of a woman by dangerous driving.
Anthony Peter Cheshire, 62, of Reynards Coppice, Sutton Hill, Telford, appeared at Chelmsford Crown Court for a plea and trial management hearing along with Tammy Louise Langton, 32.
They were released on unconditional bail at the hearing yesterday before a packed public gallery containing relatives of the deceased until November 27 for a trial expected to last between five to seven days.
The woman killed was Laura Cooper, 35, from Leicester, who had been a rear passenger in a Nissan car which was in a collision with the lorry driven by Cheshire between junction 26 and 27 of the M25 on March 29, 2016.
Cheshire denies causing her death of Miss Cooper by dangerous driving of his Scania R620 and causing serious injury to another passenger Yasmin Fry by driving dangerously.
Langton, driver of the Nissan car of 14 Melthorpe Gardens, Blackheath, South East London, also denies causing the death of Miss Cooper by dangerous driving of her car and causing serious injury by dangerous driving to Miss Fry.
She also denies causing the death by careless driving when she had in her body a specified controlled drug Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Cannabis) with 3.0ug/L in 100 millilitres of blood.
Judge Jonathon Seely enquired whether the crowded public gallery was full from relatives of Miss Cooper, who died on 2 April last year and prosecutor Anthony Abell confirmed it.
