SEEND motorist Neil Chester has appeared in court charged with causing the death of motorcyclist Arthur Price by dangerous driving.

The 32-year-old is accused of the offence following an accident on the A350 between the West Ashton crossroads and Yarnbrook in October last year.

Arthur Price, 59 and known as Don, was riding his Kawasaki 600cc when it was involved in a collision with a Renault 19 shortly before 5.30am on Wednesday October 23.

The death of the Cooper-Avon worker, who lived on Freesia Close, Warminster, came 15 years after his son Shaun also died in a motorcycle crash on the A350.

Shortly after the crash Mr Price's daughter Julie Clitherow said: "My dad was a loving husband, father and granddad and we all thought the world of him.

"He's just gone and so tragically. It is something that should never have happened. The whole nightmare is happening again for our family.

"This is the sort of terrible tragedy that happens to other people. It is a double tragedy for us because we have been there before."

At the time of his death Mr Price had been employed at Cooper-Avon for three years. It was his second spell there having previously been employed in the tyre production department for ten years.

The stretch of road, which was closed for several hours following the crash, is a notorious accident blackspot.

The accident happened just a few hundred yards from the spot where three people were killed in another accident almost three years ago.

In July 2000 Craig Dicker, 23, Adam Lumley, 21, and five-year-old Tamara-Jayne Sheppard died in an accident that left Tamara-Jayne's seven-year-old brother unable to walk.

Chester, of Sells Green, Seend, Melksham, appeared at Swindon Crown Court for a preliminary hearing on Friday.No plea was entered. He was released on unconditional bail.