A delivery driver who killed a seven-year-old girl in a head-on crash during a dangerous overtake has been jailed for six years.

Veselin Dudenski, 39, was delivering parcels when he smashed his white Citroen Relay van into a blue Kia Rio containing rear passenger Elsie Gascoigne on the evening of January 3 this year in Metheringham Heath Lane, Nocton, Lincolnshire.

Elsie died the next day in hospital while her father, who was driving the car, was left with permanent injuries.

The defendant, who has been driving vans and lorries professionally for 17 years, was disqualified from driving for eight years at the sentencing hearing at Lincoln Crown Court, sitting at the city’s magistrates’ court, on Friday.

Dudenski, who the court heard has a young child, was also told that he is liable to

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