4×4 pensioner ‘didn’t see’ cyclist in hi-vis jacket

Hornchurch

A careless pensioner killed a cyclist when her 4×4 ‘drifted’ into his bike as he cycled to work, a court heard. Joan Martino, 71, hit 58-year-old Christopher Holt in her blue Toyota Rav 4 on the busy Rainham Road, Hornchurch, Essex, at 6:45am. Mr Holt survived the initial collision with severe injuries but died four days later in hospital from a blocked artery in his lung. The father and husband was only 150 metres from work on a ‘normal journey,’…

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