A pensioner who killed a woman as she crossed the A6120 in Leeds has avoided a prison sentence.
Anne Peel, 71, was driving on the busy road on January 20 last year when she hit Susan Clarke as she approached the junction from the direction of Cross Gates. Peel, of Monkswood Close, appeared at Leeds Magistrates Court on Wednesday where she was sentenced. Magistrates' made her the subject of a six-month sentence suspended for a year.
Peel was told that she will be under curfew between the hours of 7pm and 7am for four months. She was also ordered to pay a £95 victim surcharge and costs of £85 to the Crown Prosecution Service and disqualified from driving for 30 months. She had indicated a plea of guilty to the charge of causing a death by driving a Ford Kuga without due care and attention in October this year.
