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| Death crash man's 'incompetence' | Death crash man's 'incompetence' |
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| A man who crashed his Land Rover into a river, killing four of his seven children, carried out "incompetent" changes to the car, a court heard. | A man who crashed his Land Rover into a river, killing four of his seven children, carried out "incompetent" changes to the car, a court heard. |
| Nigel Gresham, 37, of Witham Drive, Chapel Hill, has pleaded not guilty at Lincoln Crown Court to causing the deaths by dangerous driving. | Nigel Gresham, 37, of Witham Drive, Chapel Hill, has pleaded not guilty at Lincoln Crown Court to causing the deaths by dangerous driving. |
| His children Willow, two, Angel, four, Thor, six, and Keavy, eight, died when their car went into the River Witham. | |
| It happened on 16 September 2007 at Tattershall Bridge near Coningsby. | It happened on 16 September 2007 at Tattershall Bridge near Coningsby. |
| Timothy Spencer QC, prosecuting, said Mr Gresham was driving a vehicle he had owned for about four years and had carried out a number of modifications to it. | |
| "His major pastime was driving it off-road and it may be that a number of the modifications were intended to assist him with that. Sadly they didn't assist him with driving on-road." | |
| The jury was shown a DVD of road tests carried out on the Land Rover at RAF Scampton which found that the calliper on the offside front brake was bigger than the one on the nearside while the brake pedal was also worn. | |
| "Sometimes the vehicle would stop straight but other times it would lock and grab erratically," Mr Spencer added. | |
| The trial continues. | The trial continues. |