EAST Lancashire businessman Jerry Daw has died a week after being involved in a road accident.

Mr Daw, 48, managing director of Gaskell Carpets, Rishton, was trapped in the wreckage of his Jaguar car after it was involved in a head-on crash in Lytham St Anne's on Sunday December 12.

He suffered multiple fractures to both shoulders, broken ribs and a head injury.

He spent the week in intensive care at the Royal Preston Hospital where he died at the weekend.

Mr Daw, of Applecross Drive, Burnley, was a keen sportsman. He had played both cricket and football at Lytham, where he was brought up, and had also played cricket at Lowerhouse for a short time.

Richard Hopkin, finance director of Gaskell, today paid tribute to Mr Daw.

"He was very personable, outgoing man who had made a lot of friends at Gaskell and he will be sadly missed by us all.

"He was also well liked by our customers and suppliers."Mr Daw was married to Liz and they have four children, Kelly, Alex, Millie and Laurence.

Mr Daw first started working for the Gaskell group at Bacup and had also worked at Bamber Bridge. As managing director at Rishton he was also responsible for the company's mill at Carleton near Skipton.

The accident occurred when he was taking his mother, who still lives on the Fylde Coast, out for Sunday lunch.

Passengers in the Jaguar XJS were his son Laurence, 13, who suffered a broken leg and his mother Vera Daw, 82, of Berwick Road, Blackpool.

Police said Katherine Raven, 18, of Lytham St Anne's lost control of her Vauxhall Monterey which crossed the central reservation of Ballam Road and collided with the Jaguar.

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