Police driver charged with causing woman's death

A police officer has been charged with causing death by careless driving after a woman was killed five years ago.

PC Philip Duthie, 41, has been charged with causing the death of 27-year-old Kimberley Cameron on the A41 Bicester Road in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, in April 2021.

Thames Valley Police said Duthie would appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court, in London, on 27 April.

Duthie was responding to a report of a serious incident when the police car he was driving was in collision with Cameron as she crossed a road, the force said.

The force added that Duthie was currently on restricted duties.

Cameron had been jogging at the time of the collision.

Cameron's parents, Kevin and Liane Cameron, had described their daughter as "an amazing young woman, who took every opportunity in life to push her limits and live life to the full".

In October 2022, an inquest jury concluded that Cameron's death was the result of a road-traffic collision.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct reinvestigated the incident after it said "new evidence" emerged at the inquest.

The Crown Prosecution Service had now authorised a charge of causing death by careless driving.

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