Two Porsche drivers involved in a crash which killed cartoonist Harry Lucy have been charged with causing death by dangerous driving.

Mr Lucy, 82, of Home Close, Wootton, near Abingdon, died after his Volkswagen Golf was in collision with two Porsche 911 Turbos, on a country road, near Newbury, in July. His wife Claudie, 54, was seriously hurt.

Company executives Steve Shaddick, 26, and Raymond Boyd, 25, were jointly charged with causing the death of Mr Lucy after answering bail at Newbury police station yesterday.

They will appear before Newbury magistrates on December 23.

Mr and Mrs Lucy were going to see their granddaughter Emma Chester, who was celebrating her 21st birthday, when the accident happened, on the B4494 Wantage to Newbury road, on July 18. Shaddick and Boyd, both from Stirling, were heading in the opposite direction, having attended a rally to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Porsche Club of Great Britain, at Highclere Castle, Berkshire.

The Golf was thrown on its roof and one of the Porsches also overturned. Mr Lucy died while trapped upside down in the wreckage. Mrs Lucy was taken to the Royal Berkshire Hospital, in Reading, with a broken leg and chest injuries.

Police arrested the two Porsche drivers shortly after the crash.

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