A JURY was due to consider its verdict today in the trial of a teenager accused of causing the death of a close friend in a road crash.
Matthew Hesketh, 18, died after the car collided with a taxi on Preston Road, Longridge.
Adam Catterall, 19, of Mill Lane, Goosnargh, denies causing death by dangerous driving in February last year.
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In her summing up Judge Heather Lloyd told the jury they would not hear a sadder case.
The Preston Crown Court trial has heard that the car carrying Matthew, of Preston, and Catterall had skidded onto the opposite side of the road and hit a taxi.
Catterall told the court that he overtook two vehicles, but had pulled back into his own lane before a bend.
He said the car then began to slide to the left and he tried to correct it.
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