THE driver responsible for a crash involving a coach and three cars near Malton earlier this year has admitted causing the death of one of his passengers by dangerous driving.

The Yorkshire Air Ambulance and an RAF rescue helicopter helped take seven people to hospital after they were injured in the accident on the B1248 at on March 3.

It happened when a cream and maroon single-decker coach and a silver Subaru Impreza, travelling towards Malton, collided with a green Citroen Xantia car heading the opposite way.

A blue Skoda Fabia car travelling away from Malton was also involved.

Pawel Wtorkowski, 30, of Hull, who was driving the Subaru, pleaded guilty to the charge at York Crown Court, speaking through an interpreter. A second interpreter translated for a group in the public gallery.

Wtorkowski will be sentenced on November 27 at the same court, and was released on bail for his legal team to prepare testimonials from Poland and probation officers to prepare a pre-sentence report on him.

The dead man was a 23-year-old fellow Pole, also from Hull, who was a rear-seat passenger in the Subaru, and died some days after the crash in Hull Royal Infirmary. He was described in court as Wtorkowski’s “colleague”.

The Recorder of York, Judge Stephen Ashurst, called for the prosecution to give details of the injuries suffered by the survivors of the crash to the sentencing judge.

As well as Wtorkowski and his 23-year-old passenger, the 60-year-old man driving the Citroen and his 61-year-old woman passenger were taken to hospital with injuries.

Also taken to hospital were the 31-year-old rear seat passenger and 24-year-old female front-seat passenger in the Subaru and the 63-year-old woman driver of the Skoda. Five men on the coach escaped with minor injuries, as did its driver.

Firefighters had to cut the Subaru driver out of its wreckage after it ended up in a ditch on the Wolds road between Wharram-le-Street and Fimber.

Both he and the couple from the Citroen were flown to Hull Royal Infirmary.