head-on crash after showing off in an unroadworthy car which killed her three-year-old daughter and her teenage cousin. Mary Stokes, an uninsured and unlicensed driver, had five passengers in her Peugeot 206 which had been sold for scrap after failing its MOT, a court was told, Chronicle Live reports.
The 23-year-old had two small children in the car without child seats during her "persistent" spell of bad driving on the A1068 near Horden, County Durham, last September, Durham Crown Court heard.
Richard Bennett, prosecuting explained her three-year-old daughter Kelsey was thrown from the car and was killed.The defendant’s 17-year-old cousin Shauna Stokes, who was a passenger in the back of the car, died in hospital the following day, having.
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