Van driver Mohammed Mumtaz has been jailed after he overtook a car on a 'notorious' stretch of road and collided with a motorcyclist, killing the rider.
Mumtaz, 36, of Mendip Way, Downley, High Wycombe, was jailed for nine months at Aylesbury Crown Court on Friday after he pleaded guilty to causing death by driving.
The court heard that Mumtaz killed 37-year-old motorcyclist Andrew Freeman in a head on crash at about 10.30pm on February 25 by driving his Ford Fiesta van dangerously on the A4010 road between Wycombe and Princes Risborough.
Paul Reid, prosecuting, said the crash happened as Mr Freeman, of Station Road, Princes Risborough, was travelling towards Princes Risborough on his Kawasaki 750cc motorbike with his girlfriend Alison Sly, who survived the accident.
Mr Reid said: "The accident happened at a point where Mumtaz had travelled for some 90 metres on the wrong side of the solid white line and he collided with the motorcycle."
Mumtaz had no previous convictions and Christopher Blake said in mitigation that he had real remorse.
He was also banned from driving for two years and has to retake an extended driving test.
For full story see Friday's Bucks Free Press.
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