Kenneth Farr's car was hit by the car park barrier in May 2002

Kenneth Farr, 37, died in May 2002, when an unsecured car park barrier smashed through his car windscreen at the Asda store in Cardiff Bay.

The firm is being taken to court in August by Cardiff Council for alleged breaches of health and safety laws.

Last year, an inquest jury decided that Mr Farr, from Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, had been unlawfully killed.

His widow Helen said she welcomed the news of the prosecution.

Cardiff Council said proceedings were for alleged offences under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.

Mr Farr, an electronics engineer, who had gone to the store to buy a garden shed, was travelling with his three-year-old daughter at the time. She was unharmed.

He was hit on the head when a swing steel barrier was blown into the path of his car by a gust of wind as he drove into the car park.

Asda is due to appear before Cardiff magistrates on 20 August.