White van driver ‘killed pedestrian Derrick Kernan after drinking tequila at barbecue’

A white van driver who killed a pedestrian after drinking tequila at a barbecue was more than two and a half times the legal limit, a court heard. Javier Salazar, 40, was allegedly driving at 40mph in a 20mph zone on the wrong side of the road when he hit 62-year-old Derrick Kernan in Tottenham, north London on 26 June 2022. Salazar had left a barbecue before leaving and getting into an altercation with another van driver who punched him…