A MAN has been charged with causing death by careless driving seven months after a crash in which a motorcyclist died.

The 30-year-old from Sturminster Newton has been issued with a postal requisition to appear before Weymouth Magistrates’ Court on Monday May 15.

Kieron Marc Pittick, 36, of Schelin Way, Shillingstone, Blandford, died following a collision between his Suzuki motorcycle and a tractor registered to a Stalbridge company on the A357 on Friday October 7 last year.