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<\/p>\nA driver has appeared in court charged with failing to stop at the scene of a crash that killed a brother and sister who were riding an e-scooter.<\/p>\n
Roman Casselden, 16, and nine-year-old Darcie Casselden, were pronounced dead at the scene in Ashlyns in Pitsea, Essex, on 1 February.<\/p>\n
Deimante Ziobryte, 21, appeared at Basildon Magistrates’ Court on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Essex Police said the driver, whose address is listed in court documents as Merrivale, Benfleet, is scheduled to appear before the same court again on 8 January next year.<\/p>\n
The force said she “remains on bail in connection with other driving offences and our investigation into those is ongoing”.<\/p>\n
“A man arrested at the time has been told he faces no further action,” the statement added.<\/p>\n
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\n The crash happened in Walthams Place, Pitsea. Pic: PA<\/p>\n
An inquest into the deaths, which was opened and then paused earlier this year due to the police investigation, heard both siblings died from traumatic head injuries.<\/p>\n
Essex area coroner Michelle Brown, who opened the inquests separately in Chelmsford in February, gave the provisional cause of death for each child as “traumatic head injury pending further investigation”.<\/p>\n
Read more from Sky News: She said emergency services attended the scene,<\/a> where Darcie was pronounced dead at 7.10pm and Roman at 7.50pm.<\/p>\n
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