A girl of eight was killed by a speeding businessman from Manchester who had just taken a photo at the wheel to show that he was stuck in traffic.
Emily Connor was crossing the road with her grandmother when she was hit by Jon-Paul Caruana’s Vauxhall Corsa at almost 50mph in a 30mph area.
When Emily, described as a happy and healthy girl who was her family’s "shining light", died at the scene the distraught driver cried out: "I have killed a kid." ‘This was a piece of obviously dangerous driving in a residential, built-up area that brought about the loss of a young life. It was entirely avoidable.’Emily, from Chesterfield, Derbyshire, was visiting her grandparents for the weekend in November 2018. She and her gran, Dorothy Simpson-Wheeler, were on their way to catch a bus and see the Christmas lights at Manchester’s Trafford Centre.
Witnesses saw him driving ‘very fast,’ weaving around the wrong side of a traffic island and using his phone in a traffic queue.
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