Boy died ‘in terror’ on M6 as his father crashed van while high on cocaine

A cocaine-fuelled motorist who killed his teenage son after he ignored medical advice to stop driving has been jailed for 10 years.

Daniel Burba, 31, had an epileptic fit at the wheel of his wife's Peugeot van which swerved off the M6[1] near Lancaster[2] and hit a tree on April 20. His front-seat passenger, Ryan Morgan, 14, sustained head injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene of the collision on the southbound carriageway between junctions 34 and 33. Advertisement

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The youngster died "in terror" as he tried to gain control of the vehicle moments before the crash, Preston[3] Crown Court[4] heard.

Burba was taken to hospital with "relatively minor" injuries to his ribs and lacerations.