The appeal hearing was told that on the day of the crash, Hodge had been walking in the Mendip Hills with two friends.<\/p>\n
Her friends – who were in the car at the time of the incident – described her as “invigorated” and observed a sense of “normality” in her mood and driving.<\/p>\n
They also reported “no head drop, no sleeping, or no nodding off” from Hodge.<\/p>\n
During the trial, the jury rejected the suggestion Hodge was suffering from undiagnosed epilepsy and a seizure had led to the crash.<\/p>\n
Hodge was also criticised for giving inconsistent evidence in the trial. <\/p>\n
When questioned about the differing accounts, she had said: “At the time I could not relay the experience of having no recollection of mounting that kerb. <\/p>\n
“I couldn’t relay my inability to explain those circumstances without being what I would call unconscious or being unwell. I could not.”<\/p>\n
Earlier, the court was told: “In a complex partial seizure, there is a lapse of memory, whereas if one falls asleep at the wheel, one would know.”<\/p>\n
Her barrister described the incident as “tragic”.<\/p>\n
Hodge appeared at the appeal hearing via video link from HMP Eastwood Park in South Gloucestershire.<\/p>\n
When her appeal was granted, the judge told her: “If you commit any further offences during the course of the suspension, you will be liable to imprisonment.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The appeal hearing was told that on the day of the crash, Hodge had been walking in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-718278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}