A man who 'took his eye off the road' moments before a 'catastrophic' crash that resulted in the tragic death of an 18-year-old girl tried to blame his own girlfriend in a desperate bid to evade the law.
Matthew Ellson, 20, was behind the wheel of his Vauxhall Corsa when his car collided with a lorry parked in a layby on the Haslington Bypass at around 12.30am on June 13, 2020. 18-year-old Francesca Bugliarello, known as Frankie, from Sandbach, was a passenger in the back of the car and died in the crash.
Ellson initially tried to blame his girlfriend Layla Grice, a passenger in the car, falsely claiming that she grabbed the steering wheel and 'pulled it towards the lorry'. She was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter before Ellson, of Church Lane, Wistaton, finally admitted causing death by careless driving last month on what was due to be the first day of his trial, CheshireLive reports.
