Eight years for driver, 19, who killed girl in crash while racing

A teenager who killed a 17-year-old girl while racing his car at up to 100mph was jailed for eight years yesterday. Luke Grimes, 19, from Harrogate, North Yorkshire, was racing with friends when his car "cartwheeled" over an embankment and into a tree, killing passenger Kelly Bennett.

Grimes was the last in a convoy of four cars travelling along the A658 Harrogate to Knaresborough bypass on March 12. He had three passengers in his Citroen Saxo, including Kelly, who was sitting behind the driver's seat.

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As all four cars overtook other vehicles on the road Grimes was forced to brake when he did not have time to pull back in behind his friends. He lost control of the car, which fishtailed and swerved across the road on to an embankment before crashing through a fence and into a tree.