HEARTBROKEN mother Pat Curtis is campaigning for a change in the law after a driver involved in a death crash which killed her son was charged with careless driving.

Mrs Curtis wanted accountant John Harber, 47, to be charged with causing death by dangerous driving, but Crown Prosecutionlawyers said there was not enough evidence.

Harber, who admitted the lesser charge, was fined £2,000 and given a 12-month drive ban by Arundel magistrates yesterday.

The ban was then suspended pending an appeal.

Harber, from West Harting, near Chichester, was driving a Range Rover which veered into the path of the Peugeot estate car in which MrsCurtis's son Craig, 13, was a passenger.

Craig, a student at Bognor Community College, was on his way to a part-time job in Croydon, Surrey.

The head-on crash last July 31 also claimed the life of Peugeot driver Timothy Collins, 32, from Portchester in Hampshire. Another passenger was badly injured.

James Morgan-Harris, defending Harber, told the court: "If anybodywishes the clock could be turned back it is him. There must have been a momentary lapse of attention and that is all that can be put against him."

After the hearing Mrs Curtis said she was pleased with the driving ban because Harber had been charged with the same sort of offence a driver involved in a minor accident would have faced.

She said: "I'm going tocampaign for a new offence of causing death by careless driving, because this case shows the law is an ass and the consequences of deaths like this are absolutely devastating."

Mrs Curtis, of Aldwick Felds, Bognor, said she was seeking justice for crash victims and not revenge.

Harber, who was also ordered to pay £100 costs, declined to comment as he left court.

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