'The utter senseless and unnecessary devastation caused by using a mobile phone whilst driving' cycling
A distracted driver who was browsing social media moments before he hit and killed a cyclist has been jailed for five years.
An off-duty police sergeant, the cyclist was riding on the A40 to her home in Carmarthen on the evening of 25 February 2021 when she was fatally hit by the father of four, travelling in a Ford Transit van with his young son.and veered across the solid white line on the left of the carriageway"several times" before hitting Ms Thomas, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
The trial also heard from paediatrician Dr Mohammed Rahman who told the court it would be impossible for a child of that age to have either the manual dexterity or mental ability to undertake actions that had been performed on the phone in the minutes before the collision. "It's not just me it's affected," he said. "My kids have suffered. Everybody has suffered because of what happened. If I could have gone to them that night to explain that I did everything I could, I would have done."
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