A driver who caused the death of a woman pedestrian after mounting a pavement in a Range Rover has been spared a jail sentence. Janette Henry's vehicle struck Eleanor Ballantyne and her relatives as they made their way to a restaurant in Bearsden, in East Dunbartonshire, on Boxing Day in 2019.
Henry, from Bearsden, failed to keep proper observations and failed to negotiate a bend before driving across the opposing carriageway and onto the pavement. The 68-year-old collided with a wall at Manse Road and failed to stop before the victim of the fatal crash was struck and six others injured, three of them seriously.
Her vehicle then hit a parked car. Henry originally denied causing the death of the 60-year-old community worker, from Dundee, by driving dangerously, but was convicted of the lesser offence of causing death by careless driving following a trial.
