A man has been summonsed to court after a fatal collision in Basildon last summer.

Mustafa Ozdemir, 52, of Great Mistley in the town, will appear at Basildon Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, February 6 to answer a charge of causing death by careless driving.

It follows a collision on Burnt Mills Road on 21 July 2018, in which 39-year-old Ryan Pinsent sadly died.

Mr Pinsent died after a Vauxhall Zafira and a VW van crashed at about 7.10pm.