Callum Rycroft: Trial date set over death of boy, 12, crossing M62

Callum Rycroft was hit by a car as he tried to cross the M62 with his father

A man will go on trial in October charged with dangerous driving after the death of a 12-year-old boy hit by a car on a West Yorkshire motorway.

Callum Rycroft died as he and his father, Matthew Rycroft, crossed the M62 on foot on 5 August last year.

In November, Mr Rycroft was jailed for 10 years for his son's manslaughter.

On Tuesday at Bradford Crown Court, Shahid Ilyas, 48, denied dangerous driving and a trial date was set for 10 October at the same court.

Mr Ilyas, of Moorfield Chase, Farnworth, Bolton, has also denied charges of failing to stop following a collision and failing to report a collision.

He was released on unconditional bail.

Barrister Harry Crowson told the court that Mr Ilyas's defence would involve the claim that he was unable to stop his vehicle immediately, but that he did so at the first obvious safe location.

Last year's trial at Leeds Crown Court heard that Mr Rycroft had been driving drunk at about 21:50 BST on 5 August when his car, in which Callum was a passenger, had collided with a barrier and overturned on the slip road of Hartshead Moor Service Station on the M62.

Callum was later hit by a car while attempting to cross the motorway on foot with his father between junctions 25 and 26.