Death driver ‘may have been staring into space’

A driver accused of crushing a 13-year-old girl to against another car is claiming she may have blacked out at the wheel after doctors missed her epilepsy symptoms. Gardene De Carvalho, 41, killed Victoria Carson in a Fiat 500 near the schoolgirl’s home in Longmore Avenue, Barnet, at 9.35pm on June 29, Wood Green Crown Court heard. Victoria was rushed to a north London hospital, where she died from her injuries shortly before 11pm. Brazilian national De Carvalho appeared in…

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