Garage worker sentenced for death by careless driving after Bloxwich grandfather knocked down at dealership
A garage worker accused of accidentally reversing a customer’s Ford Ranger 4x4 over a Bloxwich man who’d delivered a used van, crushing him, was spared jail for the tragedy.
Paul Davies, of Beaumont Close, Chester, appeared before Mold crown court in North Wales on his 50th birthday. He admitted causing the death by careless driving at Evans Halshaw Service Centre, Bretton, Flintshire, in May last year, of Nigel Sedgwick.
Grandad Mr Sedgwick, of Bloxwich, would have been 65 in June last year and was “counting down to retirement,” a judge was told.
Prosecuting counsel Sarah Badrawy said Mr Sedgwick had walked across the forecourt but paused, apparently to look at his mobile phone, and the Ford Ranger knocked him to the ground in an “avoidable” collision.
He was trapped underneath. Davies had sought help from colleagues and hydraulic jacks were used to lift the rear of the vehicle.
