A driver has appeared in court charged with failing to stop at the scene of a crash that killed a brother and sister who were riding an e-scooter.
Roman Casselden, 16, and nine-year-old Darcie Casselden, were pronounced dead at the scene in Ashlyns in Pitsea, Essex, on 1 February.
Deimante Ziobryte, 21, appeared at Basildon Magistrates’ Court on Thursday.
Essex Police said the driver, whose address is listed in court documents as Merrivale, Benfleet, is scheduled to appear before the same court again on 8 January next year.
The force said she “remains on bail in connection with other driving offences and our investigation into those is ongoing”.
“A man arrested at the time has been told he faces no further action,” the statement added.
An inquest into the deaths, which was opened and then paused earlier this year due to the police investigation, heard both siblings died from traumatic head injuries.
Essex area coroner Michelle Brown, who opened the inquests separately in Chelmsford in February, gave the provisional cause of death for each child as “traumatic head injury pending further investigation”.
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She said emergency services attended the scene, where Darcie was pronounced dead at 7.10pm and Roman at 7.50pm.
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The coroner said the siblings were “very young” and the case had “very tragic circumstances”.
Their mother, Emma, said in a statement released through police that “their love, kindness, and spirit live on in the hearts of all who knew them”.
