Woman, 23, who killed a scooter rider, 64, when she slammed into him at 70mph while sending a winking selfie to her boyfriend from behind the wheel is jailed for three-and-a-half years

A scooter rider was killed aft a young pistillate drove into him astatine precocious velocity portion sending a selfie to her fellow from her mobile phone.

David Sinar, 64, was travelling astatine 40mph connected his brand-new Lambretta erstwhile Amber Potter, 23, slammed into him astatine 70mph.

She had exchanged a bid of messages with her spouse and different friends portion travelling location to Norfolk from Somerset, wherever she had been visiting friends.

Potter was sending a photograph of her winking and sticking her lingua retired to her spouse erstwhile she deed Mr Sinar connected the A11 dial carriageway adjacent Roudham, Norfolk.

She aboriginal told constabulary the rear lights connected her victim's scooter hadn't been connected astatine the clip – though CCTV from a store proved she was lying.

Judge Katharine Moore – who jailed her for three-and-a-half years aft she admitted causing decease by unsafe driving - told her: 'He was determination for each drivers to spot – each those who had their eyes connected the road, that is.'

Shop idiosyncratic Potter, of Norwich, was successful her Vauxhall Corsa connected her mode backmost from Glastonbury connected September 15, 2021, erstwhile she drove into the backmost of father-of-one Mr Sinar, a 'very competent' motorcyclist and cyclist who had bought his scooter that day.

Emergency services were called but the erstwhile conveyance inspector and centrifugal parts transportation driver, who had semi-retired to walk much clip with his 95-year-old mother, was declared dormant astatine the scene.

Prosecutor Chris Youell told Norwich Crown Court yesterday that Potter had taken photos of herself and exchanged telephone and Facebook messages passim her journey.

Of 55 messages found, 20 included audio clips with inheritance roadworthy sound that indicated she was driving astatine the time.

Evidence from the country showed she had been truthful distracted she failed to dilatory down earlier the clang oregon marque immoderate effort to debar Mr Sinar.

Matthew McNiff, defending, said Potter's usage of her telephone had been 'sporadic stupidity'.

He added: 'She does recognise the unspeakable harm that she has done, that a beingness has been mislaid and that she has to unrecorded with that.

'She is not callous. Her remorse is genuine and heartfelt.'

But the justice told Potter the usage of her telephone portion astatine the instrumentality had been 'gravely inappropriate' and had caused a 'grossly avoidable distraction'.

Mr Sinar had cycled for Great Britain successful his younker and owned a scope of motorbikes implicit the years, including Harley-Davidsons and Royal Enfields, arsenic good arsenic scooters.

As a teenager, helium had the accidental to go a nonrecreational cyclist but didn't instrumentality up the accidental arsenic helium mislaid his begetter to centrifugal neurone disease.

In 1985, helium acceptable a onshore velocity grounds portion riding a benignant of tandem bicycle called the Dark Horse with chap cyclist Trevor Bull.

He was diagnosed with prostate crab successful 2011 but had a large cognition that twelvemonth and went connected to rise thousands of pounds for charities including Macmillan, Prostate Cancer UK and the Teenage Cancer Trust successful a bid of cycling challenges.

After helium was killed, his household said: 'We are devastated pursuing David's death.

'He touched the lives of truthful galore radical and leaves down a loving wife, 16-year-old son, a 95-year-old mother, a member and sister, nephews and nieces, who are each devastated by his passing and volition ne'er get implicit the information helium has been taken from us.'