A driver who was using drugs has admitted causing a crash that killed a motorcyclist and his wife.

Sid Samways, 74, and his wife Barbara, 71, of Blandford, Dorset, died after a collision with a car near Shaftesbury on 2 April.

Jamie Myers, 24, pleaded guilty to two counts of causing death by driving without due care and attention while over the drug-drive limit.

He will be sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court on 5 January.

Mr Samways was pronounced dead at the scene on the Higher Shaftesbury Road.

His wife, who was riding pillion, was airlifted to hospital but died of her injuries "after a very short but brave battle", her family said.

Myers, of Donhead St Mary, Wiltshire, did not enter pleas to two counts of causing death by driving while unlicensed.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-41946142                                                                                                                                                                             

Makes my blood boil. Not only over drink/drug levels (the only safe level is zero!) but without a licence too!

My thoughts are with the family, what a horrid way to lose their loved ones.

I hope he gets what he truly deserves.                                                                                                                                                                             

I was involved in a serious RTA, where a drunk driver hit me at 50 mph. Technically i should not still be here, but after months and months i pulled through.
I despise anyone who drinks or takes drugs and thinks it is ok to get behind the wheel of a car. About time our Laws were toughened up as the penalties still not fitting for the devastation left behind x

Time for zero tolerance with drink and drugs and driving. Hope he spends a long time locked away from the public. For our safety not his rehabilitation. Couldn't care less about him.                                                                                                                                                                             

The only bad accident i ever had on bikes was caused by a drunk driver, still got the scars and plates to remind me,nearly 40 years on..no sympathy with the tossers who endanger everybody...grrrr :(>