A driver who failed to stop when he killed an elderly cyclist after ignoring a red light at a pedestrian crossing was inhaling nitrous oxide from a balloon before and immediately after the fatal collision, a judge has heard.
Graham Slinn, 81, had dismounted and was walking across the A57 near Todwick, South Yorkshire, when he was hit by a Volkswagen Golf driven by Cain Byrne, 20, and thrown at least 15ft in the air, prosecutor Laura Marshall told Sheffield Crown Court.
