A DRIVER who caused a collision in the car park of a supermarket in Basingstoke, resulting in the death of an elderly woman, has avoided prison. 

At 2.25pm on Wednesday, August 3, 2022, police were called to a collision involving a Ford Fiesta and two pedestrians outside Asda, in Brighton Way, Brighton Hill. 

Two people were taken to hospital. One of the victims, Myra Ward, a woman in her 70s, died in hospital two days later, on Friday, August 5, after suffering serious injuries. 

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More than a year later, a Basingstoke woman has now been sentenced for causing Mrs Ward's death. 

Helen Edwards, of Carbonel Close, appeared at Basingstoke Magistrates' Court on Monday, December 4 to be sentenced. 

Edwards entered a guilty plea to the offence of causing death by careless/inconsiderate driving at the same court on Tuesday, November 21 this year. 

The 52-year-old caused the death of Mrs Ward while driving a Ford Fiesta without due care and attention. 

Magistrates ordered that Edwards be put on a curfew for three months and be electronically monitored for that period. 

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She was also banned from driving for 12 months, and ordered pay court costs of £85 and a £114 victim surcharge fee. 

At the time of Mrs Ward's death, a Hampshire Constabulary spokesperson said: “At 2.25pm on August 3 police were called to a collision involving a vehicle and two pedestrians outside Asda on Brighton Way, Basingstoke.

“Sadly, one of the pedestrians, a woman aged in her seventies, passed away in hospital on August 5.”

Following the incident, a spokesperson for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service said: "Basingstoke crews were alerted to a one-vehicle road traffic collision at the Asda supermarket on Brighton Way at 14:23 this afternoon. 

"Two casualties are being treated by South Central Ambulance Service paramedics as HIWFRS work to make the vehicle and the scene safe."

Police cordoned off the area, but the store was not evacuated.