Crash driver 'had drink conviction'

A driver involved in a crash that left seven people dead had a conviction for drink-driving, it has emerged.

Jason Brain, 35, was killed along with his three passengers when he tried to overtake another car on the A429 between Moreton-in-Marsh and Stow-on-the-Wold.

Mr Brain's Peugeot 306 was involved in a head-on collision with a VW Passat.

He was pronounced dead at the scene along with a 31-year-old woman and a 15-year-old girl, both from Moreton-in-Marsh, and a 20-year-old man from Chipping Norton.

Three of the occupants of the Passat died from their injuries while two children who were sitting in the back are still seriously ill.

The ten-year-old boy is being treated Bristol's Frenchay hospital for head injuries and the nine-year-old girl is at Bristol Children's Hospital with abdominal injuries after the accident

Their grandfather, the 53-year-old driver of the Passat, died at the scene, while their grandmother, 61, who was in the front passenger seat, died later.

Their daughter, the children's 34-year-old aunt, who was also sitting in the back, died late on Saturday.

A Gloucestershire Police spokesman said the children's families "have requested that their condition remains a private matter".

Superintendent Jerry Foster said: "This is the worst case of loss of life in a single incident on Gloucestershire's roads for many, many years."

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