Driver who ploughed Range Rover into woman in horror Boxing Day crash avoids jail
A driver who caused the death of a woman pedestrian after mounting a pavement in a Range Rover has been spared a jail sentence. Janette Henry's vehicle struck Eleanor Ballantyne and her relatives as they made their way to a restaurant in Bearsden, in East Dunbartonshire, on Boxing Day in 2019.
The victim died at Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth hospital on January 2 in 2020 following the collision. A judge at the High Court in Edinburgh ordered that Henry carry out 100 hours unpaid work under a community payback order following the offence and banned her from driving for 12 months. Defence counsel Thomas Ross KC said: "Since the incident she has not driven and does not expect to drive in future." He told the court that Henry previously had a good driving record and said: "It seems to be the case that before December 26 in 2019 she had been driving for around 46 years without incident."
Eleanor's brother Charles Ballantyne, 52, said: "I remember watching the car and trying to process why it was not slowing down. I do not know if it was picking up pace, but it was not slowing down."
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