A motorist has admitted to causing the death of a pedestrian on the Princes Highway in Fairy Meadow earlier this year.
Jamie Charles Eastwood, 62, pleaded guilty at Wollongong Local Court on Tuesday, November 7 to negligent driving occasioning death in relation to the events of the morning of April 2.
The East Corrimal resident was driving out of the driveway of the Leisure Coast Garden Centre and Leisure Coast Fruit Market when he struck a 66-year-old woman.
Paramedics treated the woman for critical injuries but she died at the scene.
Court documents put Eastwood's negligent driving as having occurred between 8.30am and 9.03am that day.
Eastwood will return to court for sentencing on November 24.
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Natalie Croxon
Reporter at the Illawarra Mercury, mostly covering social affairs. Previously of the Bendigo Advertiser, Northern Daily Leader and Quirindi Advocate. Our Watch award winner.
Reporter at the Illawarra Mercury, mostly covering social affairs. Previously of the Bendigo Advertiser, Northern Daily Leader and Quirindi Advocate. Our Watch award winner.
