A jury has found that a woman driving a Range Rover smashed into a cyclist after drinking Bacardi and Coke. Janice McVicar, 57, briefly stopped in the middle of the road after the smash and attempted to move a deployed airbag that got stuck under the windscreen, before driving away.
McVicar, of Grange Drive, Eccles, then drove down Moorside Road in Swinton before crashing into a parked car and rolling her white Range Rover Evoque onto its side.
The cyclist, Jade Edmonds, who had taken up bike riding in order to get fit for her wedding, was left with significant injuries - including brain damage and a partial loss of sight in one eye - and needed intensive surgery. READ MORE: VW driver stopped by cops because he looked 'nervous' is now behind bars McVicar was earlier found unfit to stand trial at an earlier hearing due to medical issues and was not present during the proceedings.
This means that, instead of undergoing a criminal trial, the jury in this case were simply asked to decided whether she had or had not committed the acts she was accused of.
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