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

Veselin Dudenski, 39, was out delivering parcels when his white Citroen Relay van struck a blue Kia Rio carrying Elsie Gascoigne in the back seat.

The incident happened in Metheringham Heath Lane, Nocton, on the evening of 3 January this year.

Elsie died the next day in hospital.

Her father, who was driving the car and had taken her shopping and to McDonald's before the crash, suffered fractures to his breast bone, lower back and arm, including a "major injury with significant long-term implications".

The defendant, a professional van and lorry driver for 17 years, was banned from driving for eight years during Friday's sentencing a

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