Labour Peer Faces Charges Over Driving Death

A Labour Peer is to be prosecuted after he allegedly sent a text message from his mobile telephone shortly before a fatal motorway crash.

Lord Ahmed, 51, was driving his Jaguar X-type on the M1 on Christmas Day last year when it hit an Audi A4 which had stopped in the outside lane.

The driver of the other car, Martyn Gombar, 28, was killed instantly.

South Yorkshire Police today confirmed that Lord Ahmed, a magistrate, is to be summoned to appear in court in connection with dangerous driving. The maximum sentence for causing death by dangerous driving is 14 years in jail. The maximum sentence for dangerous driving is two years.

See more on Times Online.

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