A Kemsley driver has been cleared of killing two "Good Samaritans" by careless driving three years ago.

It was the second trial Mercedes driver Andre Robinson had faced, after an earlier jury couldn't agree on a verdict for the crash which happened after a storm caused a "whiteout" on the A20 in Swanley in November 2018.

Maidstone Crown Court heard how Ray Bridges, 54, and Stephen Ball, 25, died just seconds after they had helped to free another motorist John Kelly who was trapped in his overturned Vauxhall Astra.

Mr Bridges, a maintenance supervisor from Kidbrooke, south east London, and Mr Ball, from Crawley, West Sussex, died at the scene.

Neither knew each other and had been travelling in separate vehicles when they pulled over to assist Mr Kelly, who is from Sheerness, Kent.

He had been freed uninjured from the wreckage of his car and was standing with his rescuers on a grass verge at the side of the three-lane carriageway when they were hit by Robinson's Mercedes.

Mr Kelly suffered a fractured wrist and three broken ribs in the impact.

The prosecution had claimed that 39-year-old Robinson had been driving 'inappropriately' for the poor weather conditions that morning.

Robinson, a removal firm driver from Bruges Court, Kemsley, had told the jury he believed he had been driving appropriately.

The smash was said to be one of several collisions which occurred on the three-lane, London-bound carriageway near Swanley around the time of the cloudburst at 11am.