Alleged South Tyneside danger driver accused of causing death of two women in A19 smash
South Tyneside man involved in A19 crash that killed two women.
An alleged danger driver accused of causing the death of two women in a road smash on a 70mph Sunderland highway has appeared in court.
Prosecutors claim Eric Seymour, 57, of Mill Crescent, Hebburn, South Tyneside, was responsible for the deaths of Ethel Denyer, 75, and Samantha Cook, 43.
They say he was driving a MAN box van dangerously on the A19 dual carriageway on the morning of Monday, March 24 last year.
Allegations ‘could only be heard at crown court’
Seymour spoke only to confirm his name, age and address and did not enter a plea to two counts of causing death by dangerous driving.
The three-minute hearing at South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court was told the allegations against him could only be heard at a crown court.
Further details of the accident were not revealed, but Northumbria Police said at the time it had happened on the northbound carriageway, near Nissan.
One died at the scene, another later
It said a woman in her 70s had been treated by paramedics at the scene but had died shortly afterwards.
The second, aged in her 40s and a passenger in the same blue Vauxhall Mokka vehicle, was taken to hospital for treatment.
She was later discharged but died on Saturday, March 29.
Seymour was granted unconditional bail to appear at Newcastle Crown Court on Wednesday, July 22.