A MAN from the West Midlands has been charged after a Carnforth couple died in a motorway pile-up.
Neil Davy, 28, and his wife Caroline, 26, were killed when their car was crushed between a tanker and a 17-tonne lorry.
The lorry was carrying around 1,800 litres of phosphoric acid, which spilled when the force of the shunt burst the tanker's shell in September.
The chemical tanker, Mercedes van and a Mini collided between Junction 11 and 10A of the M6.
Mr and Mrs Davy's car became trapped between the tanker and the van.
A 30-year-old man from Walsall has been charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving.
He is due to appear before Fenton magistrates in Stoke-on-Trent next Wednesday (March 9).
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