Two men have been charged over a traffic collision in Bath in which four people died.
Four-year-old Mitzi Rosanna Steady, who was walking with her grandmother, Margaret Rogers, died in a collision involving a tipper truck carrying aggregate; three men who were sitting in a car also died.
Avon and Somerset police said two men had been charged over the incident, which happened in February on the very steep Lansdown Lane.
The police statement said: “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 men have been released on bail and are due before Bath magistrates court on 21 January.
About 800 people packed into Bath Abbey for the four-year-old’s funeral service. Her mother, Emmajade Steady, read a tribute she had written to her daughter.
“I woke up this morning to the heartbreak of no you,” she said. “No one to want to just sit and cuddle as life went on at its own fast pace. No beautiful Mitzi by my side, wanting to be involved in everything. The centre of everything. How can all our moments together be gone? How can it be that there will be no more memories?”
Also killed were Robert Parker, 59, from Cwmbran, south Wales, electricity company director Philip Allen, 52, and taxi driver Stephen Vaughan, 34, both from Swansea. They were sitting in a Volvo at the bottom of the hill.
