AN ULVERSTON man who killed a university student by driving dangerously has been jailed.

Student nurse Jessica Quayle, 19, died and her cousin was seriously injured when they were hit by a Peugeot 206 on a narrow country road in Ulverston last summer.

The car, driven by Kyle Braithwaite, was in collision with both women as they walked northwards towards Ulverston on Mountbarrow Road on July 7, 2014.

Miss Quayle died at the scene and Sandra Nevinson, her cousin, was airlifted to Royal Preston Hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Today 25-year-old Braithwaite, of Beckside Road, was put behind bars for five years and nine months for killing Miss Quayle.

He was also sentenced to 30 months for causing life-threatening injuries to Miss Nevinson which will be served alongside the longer sentence.

He will serve half of the time before being released on licence.

Braithwaite was due to stand trial at Preston Crown Court in September having previously pleaded not guilty to causing death and serious injury by dangerous driving earlier this year.

But he changed his pleas to guilty on the basis that he was driving at a speed, estimated at no less than 52mph, in circumstances that would have been obvious to a competent and careful driver that his standard of driving was dangerous.

Miss Quayle, of Ainslie Street, Dalton-in-Furness, was in her first year of training to become a nurse at the University of Chester.

She studied level three health and social care at Kendal College between 2011 and 2013 and completed her GCSEs at Dowdales School in Dalton.

At the time, her family said in a statement she was 'studious and intelligent'.

"She loved socialising with friends especially shopping," they said.

"You were so loved. A model student. Sweet dreams darling, we love you and you will always be in our hearts.”