AN army officer charged with causing death by dangerous driving after an horrific car crash which killed three people will appear in court again three days before Christmas.

Major Giles Stibbe, 42, of the Combined Arms School, Land Warfare Training Centre in Warminster, is due to appear at Swindon Crown Court on December 22.

He has been charged with three counts of causing death by dangerous driving after Melksham friends Craig Dicker and Adam Lumley, and five-year-old Tamara-Jayne Sheppard, from Calne, were killed in the crash on the A350, near West Ashton cross roads, on July 25.

Stibbe appeared at Trowbridge Magistrates' Court last Thursday, and was released on unconditional bail until December 22.