The court heard Goulty drank two lagers before he drove his silver Vauxhall Astra at 64mph in a residential 30mph limit area before crashing into 69-year-old Sarwar Mohammad’s Peugeot Expert Tepee taxi.<\/p>\n
Mohammad, of Willow Brook Road in Leicester, who had been driving the taxi and admitted the same offences, was handed a six-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, and told he must do 100 hours of unpaid work.<\/p>\n
Prosecutor Steven Bailey told the court Brighton did not know the Sidsaffs, who had come to Leicester for the Radio 2 in the Park music festival, but they shared a taxi because they were going in the same direction.<\/p>\n
Brighton, who was from the city, had been out with her friends celebrating her 60th birthday.<\/p>\n
Bailey said the collision happened as a result of the “combined bad driving of Thomas Goulty and Sarwar Mohammad”, while the taxi was making a right turn towards Westfield Road across the central reservation of the dual carriageway.<\/p>\n
Goulty had been out in the city and sent someone a message minutes before the crash saying he was “just out having a couple of beers”, and in a roadside test immediately after the crash tested positive for alcohol in his breath, but later assessments could not conclude that he was over the driving limit.<\/p>\n
Bailey said Goulty’s speed was “excessive”, up to 64mph (102km\/h) on approach and 55mph at the point of impact.<\/p>\n
“He had left himself little or no calculation time and any braking was far too late,” he said.<\/p>\n
“He drove too quickly for the road and its conditions, about twice the speed limit, having taken alcohol and in the dark.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The court heard Goulty drank two lagers before he drove his silver Vauxhall Astra at 64mph in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-775556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775556","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=775556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}