A 28-year-old motorist Rachel Brizzolara, of Carr Lane, Acomb pleaded guilty to causing the death of 65-year-old Geoff Hill, who was recently retired.
A 28-year-old motorist Rachel Brizzolara, of Carr Lane, Acomb pleaded guilty to causing the death of 65-year-old motorcyclist Geoff Hill.
Newly retired Geoff Hill, 65, was “there to be seen” as he rode his beloved motorcycle home from a seaside trip with his son-in-law, said district judge Adrian Lower at York Magistrates’ Court.
He died at the scene after Rachel Brizzolara, 28, turned across his path on a “long, straight stretch” of the A166 between York and Stamford Bridge and crashed into him.
District judge Lower, sitting at York Magistrates Court accepted Brizzolara did not intend to kill Mr Hill. Her solicitor, Kevin Mount said “there is no explanation she can give. She simply did not see him”.
Brizzolara was subject to an 18-month community order of 200 hours unpaid work and ordered to pay £90 statutory surcharge and £85 prosecution costs.
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