A GERMAN lorry driver has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving following a 10-vehicle crash on the M25 in Essex.
Anton Maizen, 58, from Darmstadt, Germany, was arrested following the collision on the M25 at Aveley on Tuesday.
He has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving as well as causing serious injury by dangerous driving and will appear before magistrates in Basildon this morning.
The man pronounced dead at the scene, a 79-year-old man from Ilford, was driving a silver Renault Clio.
His son, a 58-year-old passenger also from Ilford, is currently in a stable condition at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London.
