A delivery driver who killed a young girl in a head on crash following a dangerous overtake has been jailed for six years.

Veselin Dudenski, 39, didn’t see the Kia Rio coming in the opposite direction due to a hidden dip in the single carriageway road and smashed his Citreon Relay van straight into it.

There are signs warning drivers of the dip 425 metres from the crash site, which Dudenski, who was delivering parcels at the time, said he didn’t spot.

Seven-year-old Elsie Gascoigne was in the rear passenger seat of the Kia when it crashed on January 3 this year in Metheringham Heath Lane, Nocton, Lincolnshire.

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

Dudenski, who has been driving vans and lorries professionally f

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