A WOMAN alleged to have been the driver of a car which crashed killing three of her friends, all from Kent, has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving.

The accident happened as six friends travelled home from the weekend V Festival in Staffordshire last August.

Andrew Lucas, 21, and Paul Smith, 26, both from Maidstone, and Joanna Walker, 18, from Staplehurst, died after the Vauxhall Zafira people carrier in which they were travelling overturned down an embankment between junctions 28 and 29 off the M25 in Essex.

Teresa Clark, suffered multiple injuries in the accident, and two other passengers Rob Marchant, 22, from Maidstone, and Jenny Oliver, in her early 20s and from Ditton, were also injured.

Clark, 28, from Uckfield, East Sussex, has been bailed to return before Havering magistrates in July.