A company director who killed a guitarist after she became distracted while trying to switch on the heated steering wheel of her brand-new luxury electric SUV has avoided jail.
At Chester Magistrates' Court, Worgan faced up to three years in jail under sentencing guidelines after she admitted causing death by careless driving. Chris's sister Lesley Everall condemned Worgan's driving and told the court that losing her brother was the 'worst and most shocking and painful trauma'
'Mr Allen swerved away from Mrs Worgan's car as he saw it approaching him but could not avoid a collision. That five second distraction Mrs Worgan was engaging in when turning on the heated steering wheel quite clearly fits the description of her 'engaging in a brief but avoidable distraction'. 'I left the court feeling angry. It felt cold and I felt like Chris did not matter. I felt like it was all about the defendant. I felt I was the only one shouting about his life. At the court case, it was hard for me to hear that she was looking at the steering wheel on two occasions. She looked away twice.
The tragedy occurred at 8.50am on May 15 last year when Mr Allen played with Indie rock group Green Bullet and was driving through the remote hamlet of Poole near Nantwich 'Since the collision, I have suffered greatly with the emotional effects, suffering greatly with anxiety and stress. Within the first three weeks following the incident I could not leave the house through stress and anxiety.
'But it is the defence submissions that this was a momentary lapse of concentration. It was five seconds, and it was so sudden what happened. At Chester Magistrates' Court Worgan faced up to three years in jail under sentencing guidelines after she admitted causing death by careless driving