Minibus flip: Oldham man on danger-driving charges

THE scene of the M40 crash last June. (Picture courtesy of The Banbury Guardian)

AN Oldham man has been charged with dangerous driving after a minibus carrying 16 people overturned on a busy motorway.

Police have accused 34-year-old Mark Nicholson, of Abbeyhills Road, of driving dangerously, driving without insurance and a licence charge.

The charges relate to a crash on the M40, near Banbury, Oxfordshire, last summer.

Nicholson was driving employees of security and events firm Close Protection UK Ltd to Weymouth, Dorset, when it overturned.

Nicholson was released on police bail and ordered to appear at Banbury Magistrates’ Court on Friday, March 15.