A drunk woman smashed into a cyclist, leaving her seriously injured before driving on to hit a parked car and roll her Range Rover.
Janice McVicar, 57, briefly stopped in the middle of the road and attempted to move a deployed airbag that got stuck under her windscreen, before driving away.
She then crashed into a parked car and rolled her white Evoque onto its side.
McVicar, of Eccles, hit Jade Edmonds while driving on Moorside Road in Swinton, Greater Manchester.
Ms Edmonds had taken up bike riding in order to get fit for her wedding.
She was left with brain damage and a partial loss of sight in one eye and needed intensive surgery.
McVicar was earlier found unfit to stand trial at an earlier hearing due to medical issues and was not present during the proceedings.
This means that, instead of undergoing a criminal trial, the jury in this case were simply asked to decided whether she had or had not committed the acts she was accused of.
Yesterday they found she had committed those acts.
McVicar’s GP concluded that she falls under the Disability Act, so she was given an absolute discharge from court without any time in jail.
Instead, her driving licence will be sent to the Secretary of State to decide whether she will be disqualified.
In a ‘trial of the facts’ the jury previously heard that the incident occurred on June 7, 2020 at around 6.15pm on the 30pmh road.
The cyclist was hit at the top of the road at a sharp bend. Ms Edmonds doesn’t remember the incident, the jurors were told.
Ms Edmonds’s exercise app had recorded her cycle route during the day, and she later told jurors that she only ever cycled on the pavement.
One witness crossed the road in order to distance from her, moments before hearing a ‘bang’.
He turned round and saw a white Range Rover with a dent in its bumper and the airbags deployed.
The witness then noticed Ms Edmonds lying on the pavement before the car ‘immediately’ drove off.
Another passerby was on the opposite side of the road when he saw the Range Rover ‘awfully close to the pavement’.
He said it then ‘drifted towards the other side of the road’ and so he pulled his wife out of the way.
As the car got closer, he noticed the airbags were deployed, before it stopped briefly in the middle of the road.
McVicar was seen trying to move the airbags out of the way of the windscreen before the man’s wife told her to reverse into a nearby driveway, however McVicar carried on driving, going onto the wrong side of the road before colliding with a parked car and rolling her Range Rover onto its side.
Ms Edmonds suffered from a number of injuries including frontal brain damage.
She had to have her full face rebuilt during a nine-hour craniotomy surgery and has been left with a scar from ‘ear to ear’.
She also suffered from a broken femur, a broken wrist, damage to one of her kidneys and she was left with 10 percent vision in her right eye.
Emergency services attended and McVicar told one police officer: ‘I know I shouldn’t have been driving. I had a drink, I have done wrong, I’m sorry.’
She was found to have 168 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood, while the legal limit is 80 milligrams, the court heard.
McVicar went on to make a number of comments including: ‘I didn’t think I was over the limit. I hate cyclists, I can’t stand them. Some of them are stupid, aren’t they. I’ll sign anything, I admit I’ve done it, I just want to go home.’
At a police interview the next day, she said she had been with a small group of friends in her daughter’s garden where she had drunk a Bacardi and Coke and recalled travelling round the bend ‘near to the curb’. She also told the police that she didn’t see the cyclist.
Giving evidence from the witness box, the cyclist said she had been ‘getting fit for her wedding’ by cycling everyday, and added that she had always cycled on the pavement since being a child.
She confirmed that she didn’t remember anything from the incident and said the next thing she remembered was waking up in hospital. She added that her eyesight as it was before is ‘not coming back’ as it was ‘too badly damaged’.
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