Dad on cocaine jailed for son’s M6 crash death

A driver on cocaine who had ignored medical advice to stop driving before a crash that killed his teenage son has been jailed for 10 years.

Daniel Burba, 31, from Morecambe, had an epileptic fit at the wheel of his wife's van when it swerved off the M6 near Lancaster on 20 April, killing his 14-year-old son Ryan Morgan.

Paramedics found a small bag of the Class A drug as they treated Burba, 31, who had previously had seizures because of his abuse of cocaine.

Jailing Burba, Preston Crown Court Judge Robert Altham told him he had made a "deliberate decision" to drive and "disregarded the lives of others".