A jury heard how a 22-year-old man suffered fatal injuries when his Vauxhall Cavalier veered across a road and smashed into a pizza takeaway shop.

Minutes earlier Raja Zaman had asked his cousin Akhtar Khan to take the wheel of the high-powered car and it was while the 26-year-old was allegedly speeding along Oak Lane in Manningham that he lost control of the Cavalier.

Prosecutor Robin Frieze told Bradford Crown Court how the vehicle, which also had three young women in the back seat, struck the corner of Yazz's takeaway before spinning clockwise and smashing into the window of the premises.

The car then turned on to its roof before hitting a Nissan Sunny, containing two people, which was parked outside the takeaway.

"Tragically the front-seat passenger in the Vauxhall Cavalier, the deceased, suffered severe injuries from which he died a week later in hospital,'' said Mr Frieze.

"The defendant also suffered very serious injuries, including a broken neck.

"All the occupants of the Cavalier, the deceased, the defendant and the three women, were trapped in the car and had to be freed.''

Mr Frieze said it was the prosecution's case that at the time of the crash in November 2000 Khan was driving too fast on the wet road. There was also a suggestion from one witness that he may have been attempting a hand-brake turn.

When the E-registration vehicle was examined after the crash it was discovered the hand-brake itself was completely broken and there were other defects relating to the tread on the tyres, the rear brakes and the rear suspension.

When Khan, of Buxton Street, Heaton, was questioned by police a few weeks after the crash he said he remembered two girls being dropped off in the Lilycoft Road area before Mr Zaman asked if he wanted to take over the driving.

"He later remembered doing a U-turn and setting off at about 40-45mph. He then realised that was too quick and did slow down,'' said Mr Frieze. "The prosecution don't accept that. The prosecution's case is that he drove quicker than 40-45mph and he didn't slow down.''

In a later police interview Khan adamantly denied doing a hand-brake turn, but said he could not remember anything after going through the traffic lights on Heaton Road.

Khan, who still wears a neck brace as a result of his injuries, has pleaded not guilty to causing Mr Zaman's death by dangerous driving.

The jury heard evidence from Umar Abbas who claimed to have seen Khan drinking vodka when he visited a flat in the Barkerend Road area earlier that evening.

He estimated the Cavalier was travelling at about 60mph when it went through the traffic lights on amber and suggested the driver then used the hand-brake to do a 360-degree turn because he saw both wheels on the driver's side come off the ground.

Khan's barrister, Nicholas Askins, queried whether Mr Abbas had seen his client drinking coke rather than vodka and coke. Mr Abbas conceded he had been involved in an argument in the flat, and Mr Askins suggested he became upset when Khan intervened.

At one stage Mr Askins put to him: "You're making this up as you go along, aren't you?''

"Does it look as if I'm making it up?'' replied Mr Abbas.

Mr Abbas agreed he had not seen Khan using the hand-brake in the Cavalier and had assumed that was what he had done because of the way the car swerved. The trial continues.