Woman killed in collision caused by boyfriend ‘racing’ friends, court told

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The way they had been driving, too fast, too close, bears all the hallmarks of competitive driving against each other in some sort of misplaced act of bravado Prosecutor Jeremy Janes Tuke, now 21, was driving a Citroen C1, leading a “convoy” of three other cars driven by Josh Dobb, Riley Duncombe and Keigan Launder, all of whom are on trial charged with causing death and serious injury by dangerous driving. Opening the trial at Lincoln Crown Court on Wednesday, prosecutor Jeremy Janes said: “All four of these defendants were effectively racing each other, along the A16, one behind the other, all doing grossly excessive speeds and to use the words of some of the witnesses, ‘up the arse’ of the car in front of them. We say, travelling at grossly excessive speeds on that road in that manner and ending up on the wrong side of the road can only be described as far below the standard we would expect from an ordinary, competent driver and can only be described as dangerous Prosecutor Jeremy Janes Images of her mangled Vauxhall Corsa and Tuke’s Citroen were shown to the jury of 10 men and two women as well as dashcam footage of the “convoy” taken from other cars. Mr Janes said that the four defendants, who were friends, had driven from Cleethorpes to Louth, Lincolnshire, on the night of the incident and had a “cavalier approach” to driving and other road users.