Pitsea: Woman sentenced in connection with fatal collision

A woman has been sentenced following an investigation by specialist officers into a fatal collision in Pitsea.

Roman and Darcie Casselden died when the privately owned e-scooter they were riding were in collision with a car in Ashlyns on 1 February last year.

The driver of the car – 21 year-old Deimante Ziobryte, of Benfleet – admitted failing to stop at the scene of a collision at Basildon Magistrates’ Court on 6 March this year.

The month before, detectives from our Serious Collision Investigation Unit concluded there were no offences identified relating to the cause of the collision itself.

However Ziobryte had failed to stop at the scene, instead stopping a short distance away where she was located by responding officers.

Today, Tuesday 6 May, at the same court she has been sentenced to three months in prison suspended for 12 months, disqualified from driving for three years, and 80 hours of unpaid work.

Detective Sergeant Sam Nason, who led the investigation, said:

“My thoughts, and those of my team are with Roman and Darcie’s family and friends.

“Deimante Ziobryte should have stopped at the scene.

“Not only did she not stop at the scene, she didn’t try to go back and she didn’t call the emergency services.

“She had a clear responsibility to do so but made a decision not to and she has now been sentenced as a consequence of that.”

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