Milk float driver spared custody over tragedy
Christopher Davidson, 20, of Valley Grove, Halifax, was reversing at around 14mph in West View, Halifax, when he hit Zoya Hussain, who ran into the road from between two parked cars.
Davidson, who was 18 at the time, admitted causing death by careless driving at Bradford Crown Court. He was handed a 10-month sentence in a young offenders’ institution, suspended for two years, and was ordered to do 250 hours of unpaid work.
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Hide AdJudge Jonathan Durham Hall QC said: “This is a tragedy of untold proportions.
“My sympathies and sensitivities are with the family of the child who was killed by a remarkably foolish but short-lived piece of driving by an otherwise decent young man.”