Birmingham delivery driver, Matheeb Iqbal has changed his plea to guilty after his delivery van rolled across a pub car-park, onto the pavement, killing a passing pensioner.<\/p>\n
The Lozells local had failed to apply his hand-brake properly while he was making a delivery at the Bowling Green Inn on Coventry Street, Southam, on the 30th<\/sup> December 2014.<\/p>\n The refrigerated Mercedes Sprinter van rolled backwards across the car park and onto the pavement where it collided with mother-of-two, Susan Collins.<\/p>\n The 65-year-old pensioner, was severely injured, and died in hospital on January 8th last year.<\/p>\n 22-year-old Iqbal originally pleaded not guilty to the charges against him at Warwick Crown Court, but with only a few days left to the proceedings, Barrister Andrew Baker asked for the charges to be put again, as Iqbal had changed his plea to guilty.<\/p>\n At an earlier hearing prosecutor Simon Ward explained: \u201cThe issue is whether the handbrake was on or whether there was a mechanical defect.\u201d<\/p>\n The court heard there was footage from CCTV cameras which show the events which ensued.<\/p>\n \u201cHe leaves the vehicle and slams the heavy fridge door at the side. After a period of 10 to 20 seconds it begins to roll away slowly, and only gains speed to six miles an hour at the moment of the tragic accident.\u201d<\/p>\n After Iqbal had changed his plea, Barrister Andrew Baker said: \u201cThe plea is entered on the basis that he did not adequately pull the handbrake up, and it is therefore only partially engaged.\u201d<\/p>\n Judge Andrew Lockhart QC said that whether the report concludes the handbrake was not put on or was not applied correctly is \u2018unlikely to change matters dramatically.\u2019<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Birmingham delivery driver, Matheeb Iqbal has changed his plea to guilty after his delivery van rolled across a pub car-park, onto the pavement, killing a passing pensioner. The Lozells local had failed to apply his hand-brake properly while he was making a delivery at the Bowling Green Inn on Coventry Street, Southam, on the 30th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}