Driver who killed couple in Lolworth jailed

A driver who killed an elderly couple in a crash in Lolworth has been jailed.

Zahid Majid, 37, was driving a BMW M3 on the A1307, a single carriageway road, near Lolworth at just after 3pm on Saturday 23 July 2022.

He decided to overtake two farming vehicles at 60mph, and ploughed into a red Fiat Panda being driven by William Wilson, with his wife Susannah in the passenger seat.

The head-on collision caused the Fiat to turn onto its roof, and the couple, known as Susie and Tony, both 80 and from Swavesey, died at the scene.

Their daughter Anna Winspear has made this statement:

"We lost so much in one single day; Susie and Tony were parents, grandparents, great grandparents and so much more. They were friends and extended family to so many and loved by all.

"We will miss them forever, and we hope that lessons can be learnt from incidents such as this one, to prevent more innocent lives from being so unnecessarily lost. We hope that they can now rest peacefully, together."

Majid, of Wallingford Gardens, High Wycombe, was cut out of his car by firefighters and taken to hospital having suffered two broken thighbones.

At Peterborough Crown Court on Wednesday 30 October 2024, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison and disqualified from driving for a total of 12 years.