Mercedes driver sobs as he tells court he could not avoid hitting psychologist

A Mercedes driver cried in court as he denied his driving was dangerous when he killed the daughter of an Ecuadorian politician when he was doing twice the speed limit. Octavian Cadar, 39, collided with 27-year-old Vanessa Charlotte Sagnay de la Bastida near Wandsworth Bridge causing her to ‘somersault’ over a railing on 16 March 2022. Cadar, from Romania, had just left a McDonald’s restaurant on the way to see his girlfriend and was driving at 48mph in the 20mph…