In a statement read to the court on her behalf, Smart’s mum said: “She was a kind, considerate, caring and supportive daughter, sister, granddaughter, niece and friend.
“Her dry sense of humour made us laugh constantly.”
“Most heartbreakingly of all”, she said, was that Smart never got to meet her niece who was named after her.
“Even now, two years later, hearing an ambulance brings a lump to the throat,” the family statement added.
“Her whole family, friends and colleagues loved her and struggle to come to terms with her death.”
Judge Richardson told Tolan: “You caused the death of a delightful young woman, aged 29, who had her whole life ahead of her.
“The family is utterly devastated. They will never recover from this.”
Tolan was jailed for nine years and will be disqualified from driving for 10 years following his release.