スピード違反 運転者 who wasn't wearing his glasses when he killed pensioner, 79, and 本気で 負傷させるd woman, 36, while doing 57mph in a 40 zone in 衝突，墜落 is 刑務所，拘置所d for almost four years

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Stephen Farragher, who has been 刑務所，拘置所d for 45 months after running over and 殺人，大当り pensioner Audrey Tunstall ?

A スピード違反 運転者 who was not wearing his glasses when he ploughed into two women at 50mph - 殺人，大当り one and leaving the 生存者 with life-changing 傷害s - has been 刑務所，拘置所d for almost four years.

Poor-sighted Stephen Farragher, 47, was supposed to wear glasses as a 条件 of his 運動ing licence and was traveling at 57mph in a 40mph zone, a 法廷，裁判所 heard.

He was on his way home from his 職業 at Lidl, in Maryport, Cumbria, when he 粉砕するd into 79-year-old Audrey Tunstall, and her friend, 36-year-old Natalli Fisher, Carlisle 栄冠を与える 法廷，裁判所 heard.

The older woman died a short time later from her 傷害s, while Ms Fisher 苦しむd 傷害s so 厳しい that she had to spend several months in hospital.

The 法廷，裁判所 heard that in the seconds before the 事故, Farragher, 47, was 運動ing at 57mph in a 40mph zone on the A596 近づく to Dunmail Park shopping centre.

At the time he was not wearing his glasses, even though it was a 条件 of his 運動ing licence, the 法廷，裁判所 heard.

At an earlier 審理，公聴会, Farragher, of Thirlmere Avenue, Workington, had 認める 原因（となる）ing death by dangerous 運動ing and 原因（となる）ing serious 傷害 by dangerous 運動ing.

スピード違反 driver Stephen Farragher has been 刑務所，拘置所d for 殺人，大当り 79-year-old Audrey Tunstall (pictured). Farragher 攻撃する，衝突する Ms Tunstall and her friend Natalli Fisher, who was 本気で 負傷させるd

検察官，検事 Paul Cummings told the 法廷，裁判所 that the 事故 happened at 7.20pm on October 22 last year, as the 被告 was 運動ing his Volkswagen Passat on the A596 through a section of road 国境d with bus 避難所s and pavements.

The 検察官，検事 explained that Ms Fisher and her friend had travelled by bus to a 地元の NHS 医療の centre, because the pensioner had been feeling unwell.

Afterwards, they took a bus to Dunmail Park, probably so that the pensioner could get her prescription 医薬 from a pharmacy at the shopping centre.

The 事故 happened in 不明瞭 as the two women were crossing the road.

The 検察官，検事 受託するd there was an 代案／選択肢 crossing point on the road nearby, in the form of a central traffic island.

CCTV of the 悲劇 showed the 被告 適用するd his ブレーキs just before the 衝突／不一致, slowing his 速度(を上げる） to about 50mph at the moment of 衝撃.

Mr Cummings 確認するd the 被告 had not been drinking, nor was he using a 動きやすい phone.?

'The 被告 said he hadn't seen anyone until it was too late,' said Mr Cummings.

A man of previous good character, Farragher had an unblemished 27 year 運動ing career until that point.

Ms Fisher was left with life-changing 傷害s in the 出来事/事件 and Farragher, who should have been wearing glasses while 運動ing but wasn't, was 刑務所，拘置所d for 45 months

Ms Fisher 苦しむd 多重の 傷害s, 含むing 構内／化合物 fractures, a 穴をあけるd 肺, and a 長，率いる 傷害 which has 原因（となる）d her memory problems.

She was in a 昏睡 for 11 days and in hospital for seven months.

The 法廷，裁判所 heard that since the 事故 行方不明になる Fisher has had to learn again how to speak, read, and eat, and she will never be able to live 独立して.

In his police interview, Farragher agreed he should have been wearing his glasses at the time, but the 裁判官 受託するd this made no 構成要素 difference to the 事故, which was 原因（となる）d by the 被告's 速度(を上げる）.

Michael Rawlings, for married father-of-two Farragher, said the 被告 was remorseful and had 苦しむd 地位，任命する-traumatic 強調する／ストレス since the 出来事/事件.?

Passing 宣告，判決 裁判官 James Adkin told the 被告 that had he been 運動ing within the 速度(を上げる） 限界 the 事故 may never have happened.

'You reaction time was 厳しく curtailed,' sad the 裁判官.

In 新規加入 to the 刑務所，拘置所 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語, Farragher will be banned from 運動ing for three years from the point when he is 解放（する）d from his 45 month 宣告，判決.

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