Driver charged on fatal M5 crash
A coach driver from Great Barr has been charged today with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving following a crash on the M5 which also injured more than 40 people.
The charges relate to asmash on March 24 when a lorry collided with the back of a coach between junctions three for Halesowen and four for Lydiate Ash.
The coach was carrying more than 40 workers to a fruit farm in Evesham when the smash happened in dense fog at about 6.30am.
Today a 50-year-old man from the Great Barr area, who drove the coach, was charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving, after an investigaton spanning months.
He will appear before Birmingham Magistrates Court on October 2.
The crash claimed the lives of Liaquat Ali, 35, of Trafalgar Road, Smethwick, and the 65-year-old lorry driver, William Mapstone, of Wells in Somerset.
