This article is from the source 'bbc' and was first published or seen on . It will not be checked again for changes.
You can find the current article at its original source at http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/7792229.stm
The article has changed 4 times. There is an RSS feed of changes available.
| Version 0 | Version 1 |
|---|---|
| 'Texting' crash driver convicted | 'Texting' crash driver convicted |
| (20 minutes later) | |
| A motorist has been found guilty of hitting and killing another driver as she used her phone to send and receive more than 20 text messages. | A motorist has been found guilty of hitting and killing another driver as she used her phone to send and receive more than 20 text messages. |
| Phillipa Curtis, 21, from Suffolk, hit the back of 24-year-old Victoria McBryde's stationary car on the A40 near Wheatley, Oxfordshire. | |
| Curtis was convicted of causing death by dangerous driving. | Curtis was convicted of causing death by dangerous driving. |
| She had told Oxford Crown Court she thought people could use a phone when driving "in the right conditions". | |
| Ms McBryde, from Northamptonshire, who had stopped to deal with a burst tyre, suffered a fatal brain injury in the crash. | |
| 'Hyper' | |
| During the trial Curtis had told the court she had been "hyper" as she set off on her two-hour journey to Oxford on 20 November last year. | |
| She made various calls and sent text messages to a number of friends using predictive text on her flip-top phone. | |
| Shortly after making a call, her car hit Ms McBryde's car, then spun into oncoming traffic, hitting two more vehicles. | |
| The 21-year-old injured her arm in the crash. | |
| After the jury found Curtis guilty of causing death by dangerous driving on Friday afternoon, Judge Julian Hall told her she would "almost certainly" receive a prison sentence. |