A MOTORCYCLIST has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving after a mother was struck and killed by a motorbike, which had just collided with a car, reports thisislancashire.co.uk
Damien Myerscough, 41, of Camden Close, Ainsworth was riding his motorbike when it hit Lyndsay Jane Oldham, after it had initially collided with a VW Golf, which was making a right turn. Myerscough now faces a charge of causing death by dangerous driving in relation to the incident. Myerscough suffered a broken leg in the crash. He was due to appear before Bury Magistrates on Wednesday of last week but did not turn up to court.
Mrs Oldham, 43, was walking back to her house in Edgeworth Avenue from a family lunch at a local pub on Good Friday this year when she was killed. Her two children were also injured in the collision.
Myerscough suffered a broken leg in the crash. He was due to appear before Bury Magistrates on Wednesday of last week but did not turn up to court.
A warrant has now been issued ordering him to appear before magistrates on January 2. A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said: "A 41-year-old man has been charged following the death of a woman who died in a road traffic collision in Ainsworth on Friday, April 6."