Lawyer ‘ran over and killed 91-year-old man’ on zebra crossing

  A lawyer killed a 91-year-old great grandfather on a high street zebra crossing because she was not looking properly as she drove to work in heavy rain, a court heard. Charlotte Griffiths, 26, crashed into father-of-five Basant Lal Sharma in her blue Ford Fiesta in Wanstead, east London, just after 8.52am on 31 May 2016. Mr Sharma hit his head on the ground and died in hospital from severe head injuries a few hours later. Griffiths, then 24, told…