AN uninsured driver and her partner are facing jail after concocting a story about their involvement in a road crash in which an 88-year-old woman died.

After colliding with a silver Skoda Fabia on the A166 in Ryedale, North Yorkshire, on April 9 last year, Michaela Gray and Billie-Jo Robson submitted an insurance claim saying that Gray had been at the wheel of their blue Ford Focus C-MAX when it had been Robson.

Mary Elstob, 88, who was a front seat passenger in the Fabia, died three days later at Leeds General Infirmary.

York Crown Court heard Robson, 44, of Wayside Road in Bridlington, admitted charges of causing the death of Ms Elstob by inconsiderate driving, driving without insurance and driving without a valid driving licence at Gate Helmsley.

She and Gray, 40, of Havelock Place, Bridlington, both admitted perverting the course of justice between April 9 and July 30 and fraud by giving false details to an insurance company between the same dates.

Judge Jacqueline Davies adjourned sentence for reports and warned them: "You have both pleaded guilty to very serious offences which almost inevitably will lead to a custodial sentence."