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Jury out in Longridge death crash trial
8:45am Friday 9th May 2008
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.
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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