A YOUNG driver who killed two of his friends in a horror crash has been sentenced to six years in jail for dangerous driving.

Twenty-one-year-old Kyle Witney from Lindfield has been sentenced to jail having admitted causing the deaths of two of his friends when the BMW he was driving smashed into a tree in December 2014.

Matt Preece, 21, from Lindfield, and Marc Martin, 22, a father-of-two from Haywards Heath, were passengers in the car and died from their injuries in hospital.

In the aftermath of the crash Witney posted a message on Facebook expressing his remorse over the deaths of his two friends.