A TRUCK driver accused of causing the death of a Labour peer in a collision with his mobility scooter outside the Houses of Parliament faces trial in May.

Lord Taylor of Blackburn, 87, was rushed to hospital after the incident on a crossing in Millbank, yards from the House of Lords, on November 16 2016.

His injuries were not initially thought to be life-threatening, but he died on November 25.

Kul Pandey, 56, appeared at the Old Bailey on Thursday, charged with causing death by careless driving.

He is alleged to have been driving a silver Mercedes Actros truck without due care or attention at the time of the collision.

Judge Michael Topolski QC said Pandey, from Feltham in west London, faces a four-day trial at the Old Bailey on May 8.

Pandey was released on unconditional bail to appear at the same court on March 20, when he is expected to enter a plea to the single charge.

Lord Taylor, a former leader of Blackburn Town Council in the 1970s, was made a life peer by prime minister James Callaghan in 1978.

In 2009 he became one of the first peers to be suspended from the House of Lords in 350 years following cash-for-lobbying allegations resulting from a newspaper sting.