Vanessa Sagnay de la Bastida, who grew up in Scotland, was hit by a car in West London while she was walking with her fiance across a road.
The fiance of an Ecuadorian politician’s daughter has wept in court as he described the “terrifying” moment she was killed by a speeding Mercedes.
Ms Sagnay suffered a head injury and died at the scene around 13 minutes later, despite the efforts of an off-duty doctor. Mr Williams told jurors: “We got halfway across the road when I heard a loud revving sound of a car accelerating and backfiring.“At first I froze. I was so confused. And then I took a couple of steps forward to get towards the central reservation.”
He told jurors that Ms Sagnay ran back the way they had come and got as far as the bus lane when she was hit on the lefthand side by the Mercedes. Cadar, of Bexley, south-east London, has admitted causing her death by careless driving but denied the more serious offence of causing death by dangerous driving.
Afterwards, Cadar allegedly claimed the man with the victim had stopped on the road, waved his hands and was pulling Ms Sagnay backwards and forwards.
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