Police say there were also serious 'vehicle defects' which meant the car was considered to be in a “dangerous” condition, with inoperative power steering, no anti-lock braking, and tyre treads below 1.6mm on the rear tyres. Gary Cornwall has been sentenced to four years and eight months, and disqualified from driving for six years and fours months. The legal limit is 35mcg of alcohol per 100ml of breath.Ĭornwall said he had consumed homemade wine the night before and hadn’t realised he was over the alcohol limit. He failed a roadside breath test, and more than an hour and half after the incident, he tested positive for 68 microgrammes (mcg) of alcohol per 100 millilitres (ml) of breath. The court also heard how the 57-year-old, of Woodland Vale Road, St Leonards, was over the legal alcohol limit at the time. They reported hearing the tyres of the BMW screeching as Cornwall left the junction and appeared to be drifting in the road.Ĭornwall denied intentionally drifting but admitted to intentionally accelerating harshly out of the junction. Witnesses described the manoeuvre by Cornwall was “reckless” and “out of control”.
The BMW collided with pedestrian David Evans, 72, from Hastings, who was walking on the pavement. Gary Cornwall accelerated out of the junction of Gillsmans Hill onto The Green in St Leonards and mounted a kerb, shortly before 10am on 16 June 2022.
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An 'out of control' driver who mounted the kerb, and hit and killed a pensioner in East Sussex has been jailed.
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