Pc charged after fatal collision

The police car was transporting a man arrested at Gatwick Airport

A police constable has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving after a collision near Gatwick Airport.

Karen Stagg, 47, was killed and her son injured in a collision between her Ford Focus and a police 4x4 on Gatwick Road, Crawley, West Sussex, on 22 January.

Nicholas Andrews-Faulkner, from Sussex Police, is due at Aldershot Magistrates Court, Hampshire, on 23 June.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission is managing the inquiry, carried out by Hampshire Police.

Mrs Stagg, from East Grinstead, was driving a car in front of her husband, who was in another vehicle, when the collision happened at the Beehive roundabout.

The two officers in the Mitsubishi Shogun were uninjured.

The police vehicle, which was on its way to the police station at Gatwick, was being used to transport a man who had been arrested for being drunk on a flight from Cyprus to Gatwick Airport.