A motorist has been summoned to court in connection with a fatal crash on the A66.

Calum Wilkinson, 25, of Eagle Terrace, Main Road, Flimby, is due to appear at North Cumbria Magistrates' Court on Monday.

A spokesman for Cumbria Police said: "Officers investigating a fatal road traffic collision on the A66 near Braithwaite on Friday, April 29, 2016, have reported a man for summons for causing death by dangerous driving."

David Bennell, 82, from Braithwaite near Keswick, was seriously injured in the crash.

He died in Newcastle's Royal Victoria Hospital two days after the crash on the A66 near his home.