Mother campaigns for tighter driving rules

The mother of a teenager killed by an elderly motorist with defective vision plans to lobby the government later this year for the police to be able to seize the car of someone unfit to drive.

An 87-year-old motorist, Colin Horsfall, had failed an on-the-spot number plate test following a previous minor accident in Colchester on February 4 2011. He was found to only be able to see to 16.2m and advised not to drive again by PC Daniel Bellingham who faxed a report of the incident to the DVLA on February 6. The next day Horsfall drove into Colchester and ploughed onto the pavement, hitting pedestrian Cassie McCord who died in hospital the next day. An inquest in Essex last week recorded a verdict of unlawful killing, with Horsfall's subsequent death a result of the accident.