A businessman has been jailed for four years for causing the death of a pensioner by dangerous driving.
Faisal Ali was driving his Mercedes Benz car when he overtook a car and crashed head-on into Leslie Anthony Barrett’s Vauxhall Vectra on the notorious A171- Whitby to Guisborough road.
The 28-year-old of Oxford Road, Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, was today sentenced at Leeds Crown Court after he was previously found guilty by a jury at York Crown Court of causing death by dangerous driving.
The court heard during the trial that Ali is believed to have been travelling at 70mph, was on the wrong side of the road and just about to go over a small blind hill in the road when the collision occurred near Ayton Low Moor.
Sixty-five-year-old Mr Barrett - known to friends as Tony - was returning from band practice in Castleton to his home in Whitby when the accident happened at about 9.20pm on September 8, 2013.
He suffered fatal injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Ali was returning from a trip to Whitby with his wife when the tragedy happened.
The defendant was taken to hospital with multiple serious injuries including a shattered knee and internal bleeding.
His right leg and kneecap had been snapped in half and he had to be kept in the hospital’s trauma ward for about three weeks.
He was later arrested and charged with causing death by dangerous driving.
Ali, who runs a store business, claimed he had little recollection of the incident and could only remember a car suddenly looming in front of him.
He said he had blacked out after the crash and woke up in a hospital bed.
He even told police that it was Mr Barrett’s car which had been on his side of the road, the York Crown Court trial heard.
But a police accident investigation revealed that tyre marks from both vehicles could clearly be seen in the Whitby-bound lane which Mr Barrett had been travelling in - showing that Ali was on the wrong side.
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