Driver in UK road crash accused of deaths of 8 Indians gets bail
11 Sept 2017 10:43 PM IST
London: A truck driver charged with causing the deaths of eight Indians last month in one of the UK's worst road accidents in decades was today granted conditional bail by a UK court.
David Wagstaff, charged with eight counts of causing death by dangerous driving and four counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, appeared before Milton Keynes Magistrates Court today and was granted bail on the condition that he does not leave the UK without permission.
The 53-year-old will now appear alongside Ryszard Masierak, 31, who was remanded in custody to appear before Aylesbury Crown Court on September 26.
Masierak, a Polish national, is charged with eight counts of causing death by dangerous driving, eight counts of causing death by careless driving while over the prescribed alcohol limit and four counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
The bodies of the victims of the fatal collision, which took place on the
M1 motorway near Newport Pagnell in the early hours of August 26, have been repatriated to India.
The funeral rites for 33-year-old Karthikeyan Pugalur Ramasubramanian, and his 32-year-old wife Lavanyalakshmi Seetharaman; 63-year-old Panneerselvam Annamalai; 58-year-old Subramaniyan Arachelvan and his 50-year-old wife Tamilmani Arachelvan; 26-year-old Vivek Baskaran and 27-year-old Rishi Rajeev Kumar took place in Tamil Nadu and Kerala last week.
The owner and driver of the mini-bus in which the Indian software engineers and their friends and families were travelling, 52-year-old Cyriac Joseph, had his last rites in Nottingham where the Kerala-born businessman was based for many years.
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