Man charged after fatal A14 collision

A 19-year-old man has been charged in connection with a serious road traffic collision in Rougham in which two men died.

Police were called at 9.30pm on Boxing Day, 2017, following reports of a collision involving a black Vauxhall Corsa and a grey Ford Fiesta eastbound on the A14, just east of junction 45.

Jake Paxton, 18, of Bury St Edmunds, who was a passenger in the Ford Fiesta, was taken to Addenbrooke’s Hospital, in Cambridge, but later died as a result of his injuries.

A second 18-year-old man, William Smedley, of Bury St Edmunds, also a passenger in the Ford Fiesta, sadly died at the scene.

A third man – the driver of the Ford Fiesta – was taken to hospital for treatment but his injuries were not thought to be life-threatening.

A female driver of a Vauxhall Corsa, a 19-year-old woman, was uninjured.

Following a police investigation into the circumstances of the collision, the driver of the Ford Fiesta, George Mills, 19, of Stow Road, Ixworth, was summonsed to appear at Ipswich Magistrates’ Court today, yesterday, August 13, where he was charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving.

He is next due to appear before Ipswich Crown Court on September 10.