A 43-year-old man has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving following a fatal accident involving a cyclist in Sittingbourne.

Mark Warner, of Chigwell, Essex, is also accused of with failing to stop, failing to report the accident, using a motor vehicle without insurance and using an insurance document with intent to deceive.

He is due to appear before Sittingbourne magistrates on Friday, January 20.

Robertas Zalepuga, 26, of Emerald Road, on Sittingbourne’s Sonora Fields development, died on August 12 last year while on his cycle on the Bobbing-bound side of the nearby Staplehurst Link Road.

Mr Zalepuga, a Lithuanian, had worked at Cross and Wells’ warehouse and distribution depot in Castle Road, Sittingbourne, since January last year.

Employees set up a shrine in the firm’s canteen in his memory and raised hundreds of pounds for his family.

It is believed he was riding home when the accident happened.