Pensioner did not see cyclist before smash

A pensioner accused of killing a cyclist after her 4×4 ‘sandwiched’ his bike into the curb as he rode to work insisted she did not see him. Joan Martino, 71, hit 58-year-old Christopher Holt in her blue Toyota Rav 4 on the busy Rainham Road, Hornchurch, Essex, on 11 May 2016. Mr Holt survived the initial collision with severe injuries but died four days later in hospital from a blocked artery in his lung. But giving evidence Martino told the…