Barugh Green collision: Mini driver goes on trial accused of performing 'dangerous' overtake which killed Yorkshire postman

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A Mini driver has gone on trial accused of performing a ‘dangerous’ overtaking manoeuvre which sent a family car into the path of a lorry, killing the driver.

Barrie Barker, 69, denies causing the death of postman Alexander Firth by dangerous driving and serious injury to Mr Firth’s new wife Kirsty and his 10-year-old son from a previous relationship. The collision took place on the A637 Claycliffe Road in Barugh Green, near Barnsley, in April 2022. Mr Firth, who lived in Leeds and worked at Royal Mail’s delivery office in Seacroft, was driving a Vauxhall Astra with his wife Kirsty in the passenger seat and his son in the back.

I was trying to get past and he hit my back end. He accelerated when I was slightly in front. I thought we’d both stop after the contact, but then heard a big crunch.” Kirsty Firth suffered a bleed to the brain, fractures to her ribs, pelvis and legs, and kidney and liver lacerations that were treated at the Northern General Hospital. Her stepson was taken to Sheffield Children’s Hospital with a broken arm.

 

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