A WOMAN got out of her car after a fatal collision with an elderly cyclist and told an eye witness: “I didn't see him,” jurors were told.

William Logan, 70, died at the scene of the crash when he struck a Blue Audi car, driven by 25-year-old Sophie Whitmarsh, at Kitnoks Hill, Curdridge last April.

Southampton Crown Court heard the force of the impact sent the pensioner and his bicycle over the top of the Audi before landing on the road.

The prosecution say visibility was good and Mr Logan, who lived in Eastleigh, had been wearing a high visibility jacket as well as a crash helmet.

They allege Whitmarsh caused the crash by driving across his path when she drove out of Reading Room Lane intent on going into Outlands Lane on the other side of the A334 Shedfield to Botley road.

Yesterday (Tues) Southampton Crown Court heard from local resident Elizabeth Goddard who had stopped just short of the entrance in Outlands Lane and wanted to turn left to go to her son's home in Botley.

She saw the Audi on the other side of the road and waited for the driver to come across the road.

“After it had started, it had got about three quarters of the way. I was waiting for it and then all of a sudden I saw a bike and a cyclist on it. I realised something was going to happen, I saw the cyclist go over the top and I got out of my car.

“When I looked to the right, I saw this bright yellow gillet. He had a helmet on.”

Prosecutor Simon Edwards asked Mrs Goddard whether the cyclist had any opportunity to avoid the collision. She replied: “No. He went straight into the car.”

She told the court the other driver got out of her car and told her: “I didn't see him.”

Mrs Goddard said she did what she could to make the cyclist comfortable and used the mobile phone of a man who stopped at the scene to call for an ambulance.

Two young physiotherapists then arrived and they carried out CPR.

Under cross-examination from defence barrister Nicholas Robinson, she described the junction as dangerous.

Mr Robinson asked her whether she had said to Whitmarsh: ”How many accidents have to happen before something about it.”

The witness replied: “I probably did.”

Whitmarsh, of Wylye Close, West End, denies causing death by careless driving, and is expected to give evidence in her defence today.

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