A callous drink driver told police "I hate cyclists" after ploughing into one before rolling her Range Rover onto its side.
Bride-to-be Jade Edmonds was left with brain damage, partial loss of sight and in need of a full facial reconstruction thanks to Janice McVicar.
The 57-year-old motorist had been drinking Bacardi and coke before getting behind the wheel of her white Range Rover Evoque.
She briefly stopped in the middle of the road after the crash and tried to move a deployed airbag trapped in the windscreen, then drove off, reports the Manchester Evening News.
McVicar, of Eccles, Greater Manchester, later crashed into a parked car.
Ms Edmonds was left needing intensive surgery.
The defendant was not present during a hearing on Wednesday after being found unfit to stand trial.
As a result, instead of undergoing a criminal trial, a jury was simply asked to decide whether she had or had not committed the acts she was accused of.
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They found she had committed those acts.
But, as McVicar’s GP concluded that she falls under the Disability Act, 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 roughly 6.15pm, when Ms Edmonds was cycling in Swinton, Greater Manchester.
The road has a 30mph limit, consisting of two lanes with one lane of traffic in each direction and has an incline.
The pair met at the top of the road at a sharp bend where the cyclist was hit.
Ms Edmonds doesn’t remember the incident, the jurors were told.
Her Strava exercise app had recorded her cycle route during the day, and she later told jurors that she only ever cycled on the pavement when she went out on her bike.
One witness crossed the road in order to socially 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. He then noticed Ms Edmonds lying on the pavement outside a little cottage before the car "immediately" started driving off.
Another witness drove past McVicar's vehicle and saw the airbag had deployed.
Another witness had been driving up the road as McVicar was driving down.
And a third said the Range Rover was "awfully close to the pavement" before it "drifted towards the other side of the road".
He also described seeing the airbags deployed before it stopped in the middle of the road.
McVicar had then continued driving before hitting a parked car and rolling her Range Rover onto its side, the jury heard.
Ms Edmond’s suffered from a number of injuries including frontal brain damage.
She had to have a full face rebuild during a gruelling 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.
McVicar told police at the scene of the second collision: “I know I shouldn’t have been driving. I had a drink, I have done wrong, I’m sorry.”
Following a blood test, she was found to have 168 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood - the legal limit is 80 milligrams, the court heard.
McVicar went on to make a number of unsolicited 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.
She 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 every day, 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 is "not coming back" as it was "too badly damaged".
