David MacDonald drove for 24 years on a provisional before crashing head on into Leeanne Aitken.
A man convicted of causing a mum-of-three’s death in a horrific head-on car crash has never held a full driving licence.
He was convicted at the High Court in Livingston on Friday of the lesser offence of careless driving after claiming in his defence that he believed he was on a dual carriageway and “on autopilot” at the time of the accident. Following the unanimous guilty verdict, advocate depute Isabella Ennis moved that the accused should be remanded in custody because “a reasonable sentence was one of imprisonment”.
The impact was so severe that her car’s engine was pushed rearwards through the bulkhead into the passenger compartment. He was one of the first on the scene of the tragic accident on the A705 Cousland Road in Livingston, but was unable to save her.Accident investigator PC Craig Anderson told the court: “The word carnage comes to mind. There was extensive debris with glass and oil all over the road surface.”
His report concluded: “It’s the investigators’ opinion that complete responsibility for this collision rests with the driver of the Audi, David MacDonald.”
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