A driver left a much-loved mother-of-two fatally injured when he ploughed into a taxi in Hucknall. Kathleen Hinsley, 77, was wounded as her husband of 48 years, Brian Hinsley, helped her get into a grey Skoda taxi parked up by her regular driver, Chris Bills, outside the couple's home in Annesley Road, Hucknall.
Nottingham Magistrates' Court heard the crash happened when another driver, Richard Clarke, was on the same road. Mr Bills's car was parked half on and half off the pavement.
Clarke, in a silver-coloured Vauxhall Insignia with his unrestrained Weimaraner dog, lost control in seconds when he was distracted by his hound on the morning of November 3, 2021. Mr Bills saw Clarke's car veer in an "almost deliberate manner" into his lane and drive straight towards him as he sat in the driver's seat.
