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DHL driver who reversed over Scots gran with his van spared jail as family slam ‘lenient sentence’
30.01.2023 - 16:49 / dailyrecord.co.uk
The family of a great-grandmother who was killed by a DHL delivery driver who reversed over her has hit out after he was spared jail. James McShane, 54, struck Elizabeth Moffat with his van as she walked along a road in Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire.
The 80-year-old was dragged three metres underneath the van as McShane continued to reverse the vehicle. She suffered catastrophic injuries including a fractured sternum, multiple broken ribs and lacerated lungs.
In a statement released through Digby Brown Solicitors, her family said: "This sentence is so lenient it's just floored us. We knew a sentence was never going to undo what happened to our mum but we didn't expect this. A few hours of community service, a brief ban and not even a fine?
"This simply isn't justice. How is it justice to see him walk home, hugging his relatives and no doubt celebrating his freedom. While we're left feeling like we don't matter. Like our mum doesn't matter. A phrase repeated today several times was 'momentary inattention', but it wasn't.
"This has impacted us as children and it's just devastated our father who, now that his wife is gone, has been left in a home suffering from dementia. Waiting nearly three years for justice, it's basically just been for nothing.”
After the collision, McShane tried to revive Mrs Moffat after phoning 999 but when paramedics arrived at the scene she was pronounced dead. An investigation revealed all of the reverse sensors on the van were working at the time of the incident in May 2020.
It also found DHL driver McShane was reversing at a "reasonable speed" of around 5.5mph at the time of collision and passed all alcohol, drug and sight tests.
A court heard he said, "I think I've run over a woman, I never seen
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