A MAN has been charged with death by dangerous driving after a nine-year-old girl was killed in a car crash in Altrincham in May.

Chizoro Barnabas Edohasim, 46, of Huntspill Road, Altrincham, was charged with causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving today, Wednesday September 28.

Edohasim has been bailed to appear before Manchester and Salford Magistrates Court on Wednesday October 19.

Shortly after 10.50am on Saturday May 7, police were called to reports of a road traffic collision on the A56, near to Stamford Brook Road, in Altrincham.

Officers arrived and found a car had collided with a wall. Police discovered a man and two children in the vehicle.

Sadly nine-year-old Olivia Edohasim was pronounced dead at the scene.