Father who ignored medical advice jailed for fatal crash

A cocaine-fuelled motorist who killed his teenage son after he ignored medical advice to stop driving has been jailed for 10 years.

- by Post Reporter

Daniel Burba, 31, had an epileptic fit at the wheel of his wife's Peugeot van, which then swerved off the M6 near Lancaster and hit a tree on April 20.

His front-seat passenger, Ryan Morgan, 14, sustained head injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene of the collision on the southbound carriageway, between junctions 34 and 33.

The youngster died "in terror" as he tried to gain control of the van moments before the crash, Preston Crown Court heard.

Burba was taken to hospital with "relatively minor" injuries to his ribs and lacerations.