Craig Smart was driving his employers' van when he collided with army veteran Dave McArthur on the crossing in Cardenden, Fife.
A "calm" hit-and-run killer who lit a cigarette then "took off" as a man he had just driven into on a zebra crossing lay mortally injured is facing jail.
He was thrown 9.62 metres, landing on the pavement with such a severe head injury that he died in hospital two days later. An eye witness described Smart's van doing "excessive speed" - though police estimated 20 to 27 mph - before "a loud bang". Scaffolder Andrew Tullis, 41, said he put Mr McArthur in the recovery position and was using a T-shirt to try and stop his bleeding when he heard the van leave. He asked his brother, also at the scene, to follow it and get its number.
In evidence, father-of-three Smart, a floor layer, said that the first time he became aware that anyone was on the crossing was when he heard the collision. Suggesting Mr McArthur might have "run" across the zebra, he said: "I think there's no way he could have walked across the crossing and me not seen him.
After a four day trial, in a verdict returned late on Thursday, March 2nd, a jury of eight men and seven women found Smart, of Cardenden, guilty of causing Mr McArthur's death by careless driving. The prosecution had sought a conviction for causing his death by dangerous driving but after deliberating for nearly an hour the jury opted to convict of the less serious charge.
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