A grieving family have expressed their relief after a coroner ruled out a loving mum-of-five suffered a medical episode before she was run over by her neighbour. Alice Gilchrist died after being hit by a car which was reversing from a driveway in Ashton-in-Makerfield on July 25, 2019.
Alice was walking from her home in Vicarage Road towards Warrington Road but was run over on her street by a reversing Volvo car being driven by Lorraine Lunt. Paramedics rushed the 86-year-old to Royal Albert Edward Infirmary but she was sadly pronounced dead just after midday.
Ms Lunt was found guilty of death by careless driving following a trial at Manchester Magistrates Court and handed a suspended 26-week prison sentence and banned from driving for two years. But the conviction was overturned on appeal last year at Bolton's Nightingale crown court.
