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A speeding driver who killed a 13-year-old girl and seriously injured her sister and mother has been jailed for four-and-a-half years.
Ingrid Messenger was in the rear seat of a Citroen C4 hit by Tony Packenham s Land Rover Defender near Carlisle on 18 February 2019.
The 47-year-old was absolutely flying at almost 80mph (128kmh) prior to the crash, the city s crown court heard.
At a previous hearing, he admitted causing death by dangerous driving.
Witnesses said the Land Rover was speeding before the crash at a crossroads between Stoneraise and Ivegill on the C1036.
A motorist who caused the death of a 13-year-old north Cumbrian schoolgirl by dangerous driving has been jailed for four and a half years. Tony Packenham, 47, also admitted causing serious injury by dangerous driving to both the mother of Ingrid Messenger and her 15-year-old sister. The charges came after an accident on February 18 last year on the C1036 at Broadfield Common, near Ivegill, which caused the death of Ingrid Messenger. At Carlisle Crown Court last week, Packenham also admitted a fourth charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice by discarding a dashcam memory card which had recorded his Land Rover Defender travelling at speed in the moments before the fatal collision with the other car.
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