A man has been jailed after an pensioner was killed in a horror crash on the A500.
Mark Holland, of Dudleston Road in Little Sutton, had left work and was driving along Welsh Road, in Ledsham, when a collision occurred with three other vehicles at 6.55pm on Monday, September 30 in 2019. The 35-year-old was driving a Honda Civic which collided with a Vauxhall Zafira, a BMW and a Ford KA.
Holland smashed head-on with the BMW. The driver, aged 52, and the passenger, 80-year-old Glenna Hyland, were both taken to Aintree Hospital with serious injuries.
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Ms Hyland died five days later, on Saturday October 5, 2019, from significant and multiple injuries as a result of the crash. Holland was rescued from his car and was also taken to Aintree Hospital with serious injuries to both of his legs and underwent treatment for several months.
Interviewed by officers, he told them he couldn't remember what had happened that day. Holland was charged with causing death by dangerous driving, an offence which he denied.
A jury found him guilty following a trial at Chester Crown Court on Thursday 16 June this year and, on Friday September 2, he was sentenced at the same court to five years in prison and banned from driving for 66 months upon his release.
Inspector Nick Rogers said: “It has taken a long time for Glenna's family to receive justice following the collision which occurred more than three years ago. Holland denied causing her death and therefore took the case to trial meaning the family have had to relive the trauma of the collision all over again.
"I hope the sentence that has been given to Holland will in some way help Glenna's family to find closure and bring a form of comfort knowing he is now rightly in prison.”
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