Pippa Smith remembers saying to her husband, “I hate this road. 'At first I thought the cyclist was going to go under the vehicle, but instead he bounced up onto the bonnet, onto the windscreen then quite high into the air and into the verge.” I was braking very hard I was worried the cyclist might land in front of my car. I can remember saying to my wife - ‘he’s going to get hit’, I was referring to the cyclist. 'There was a cyclist in front of the white car. Graham Pattison died after a car collided at speed with his bike on the A689 near Wynyard (Image: TeessideLive/Cleveland Police) 'The white car swerved to the left and it was a “speed wobble” as if she was trying to get the car under control. “The white car was quite close to the black car - they were side by side.

Trevor was driving and he told the trial at Teesside Crown Court that he was in the inside lane on the A689, when a black car came past him very quickly at the roundabout- that he remembered because his wife made a comment about the car’s speed: 'I can’t be certain if this was near the Esso or the Waterloo roundabout.

The couple, who, are both paediatric nurses, were directly behind Ferry and Robinson before the crash. Trevor and Pippa Smith were driving home in their VW Tourag, with their children after a family day out in Alnwick. Her boyfriend Mikey McKie was sitting in the passenger seat next to her. Read more: Family of fatal crash cyclist pay tribute to 'amazing dad' as killer drivers convictedīut David Ferry, 47, and Paige Robinson, 24, 'were using the road as a racetrack' prosecutor Nick Dry said, 'and were so engrossed by each other, that they both completely failed to see - on that bright, sunny day- Graham Pattison on his bike.'įerry was driving back to Redcar in his black Audi TT Robinson was driving home to Billingham in her white Ford Fiesta after shopping at the Metro Centre.

Mr Pattison was wearing a helmet, a bright striped top and his bicycle was fitted with a flashing red light. 6 of a metre from the side of the dual carriageway.

He was correctly positioned - a police crash investigator found that the dad-of-two was cycling between. Graham Pattison was cycling from Sedgefield to Wynyard along the A689. Visibility was clear and three drivers who became witnesses in the road case testified that they saw the cyclist on the road. It was a dry, clear Friday afternoon and the A689 wasn't 'too busy'.

Beautiful Death by David Robinson