TWO men have been sent to prison for causing the death of a passenger in a two vehicle crash on the A34 last year. 

Ian Messenger, 33, died when the van he was travelling in collided with a lorry between Milton and Marcham on October 12. 

READ: News report from crash 

The driver of the van, Barry Smith, 65, and the lorry driver Plamen Atanasov, 49, both pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving on Thursday. 

They have been given six month prison sentences and were banned from driving for 12 months, the BBC reports.

Smith, of Quernstone Lane, Northampton, and Atanasov, of Violet Road, Southampton, appeared at Wood Green Crown Court.