Two men charged by police following February’s fatal lorry crash in Bath

Two men have been charged by Avon and Somerset Police in connection with a fatal collision in Bath earlier this year, in which four people were killed including a four-year-old girl.

A Scania tipper truck lorry carrying aggregate collided with two pedestrians and several vehicles in Lansdown Lane, Bath, just after 4pm on Monday 9th February.

The lorry then overturned onto a Volvo near the bottom of the hill. Three men in the car died at the scene from their injuries.

Four-year-old Mitzi Rosanna Steady also died at the scene of the collision.

She had been walking with her grandmother, who sustained life-changing injuries.

Today (10th December), Phillip John Potter, 19, of Little Middle Green Farm, Dauntsey, Wiltshire, has been charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving and two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

Matthew Gordon, 29, of Chestnut Farm, Dauntsey, Wiltshire, has been charged with two counts of aiding, abetting, counselling and procuring/aiding and abetting cause death by dangerous driving and two counts of aiding, abetting, counselling and procuring/aiding and abetting cause serious injury by dangerous driving.

He has also been charged with one count of dangerous driving.

Both have been released on bail and are due before Bath Magistrates’ Court on 21st January 2016.