Jacqueline Higson hit motorcyclist Darron Coster and knocked him off his bike, causing unsurvivable injuries
A carer was overtaking a cyclist from Lancashire on a rural road when she caused the death of an ex-military policeman hailed a hero for helping injured victims of the Manchester Arena terror attack, a court heard.
Today , Higson, of Robinson Street in Chatburn, was given a suspended prison sentence after she pleaded guilty to causing Mr Coster’s death by careless driving. The court heard the crash happened on July 14 2021 on Jack Lane – a stretch of road linking the villages of Rathmell and Wrigglesworth. Mr Crowson said: “Darron Coster had no time to react or even see the defendant’s vehicle. A collision report details that as the sole cause of the accident – Jacqueline Higson being on the wrong side of the road.A victim impact statement from Mr Coster’s wife Alison Coster said the couple had married when she was 22 years old and he was “her whole world”. The statement, read in court, said: “He was my backbone and without him, every day has felt like an uphill battle since.
He told the court Higson had been a carer for 37 years and was described in character references as “a good, caring person”. Mr Coster died three months after giving evidence to a public inquiry into the Manchester Arena attack, with the chairman of the inquiry Sir John Saunders announcing the “very sad news” during one of the hearings. During his evidence, Mr Coster, who retired from the Royal Military Police in 2008 after 22 years, said he had served tours of Northern Ireland, so was familiar with the aftermath of bomb explosions and had basic first aid training.
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