A teacher wept in court as she was sentenced for causing the death by careless driving of a mum after she looked away from the road for a "couple of seconds". Distraught Emma Parkes wiped away tears with a tissue during sentencing at Nottingham Magistrates' Court on Friday (March 3) over the death of 73-year-old Yvonne Roberts - whose son described her in a statement as "an extremely giving person".
Prosecutor Nicole Baughan began by saying, "this is a case in which momentary lapse of concentration and split second decision has had tragic consequences". Parkes was travelling at about 50mph along single-carriageway Budby Road, Cuckney, Newark, on April 16 last year. She approached a stationary car waiting to turn left.
But she did not see this vehicle "until it was too late," added Miss Baughan. Parkes's partner alerted her to this vehicle and she took immediate evasive action, pulling out into the right hand lane, where Ms Roberts, a voluntary carer, was travelling in the opposite direction.
