Coroner's warning after death caused by elderly driver

A CORONER has warned that older drivers with “compromised” ability may cause further deaths after a woman was struck and became trapped under a car driven by an 89-year-old man in a Waitrose car park in Newark.

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Rosemary McAndrew, 64, died from chest injuries on July 5 last year after she was hit by a car “reversing at speed” while she was a pedestrian near the shop.

The car was driven by an elderly man who paramedics suspected “may have had a neurological event” while driving.

In the two years before the crash, the man’s mobility had reduced, he reported back and leg pains to his GP, and went to A&E in October 2023 with symptoms suspected to be the result of a mini stroke.

He died of dementia and gangrene in both feet eight months after the collision.