A SAINSBURY'S lorry driver has pleaded guilty after a cyclist was struck and killed in Bracknell.
Vincent Paul Cassar, 65 of Osborne Close, Basingstoke pleaded guilty to death by careless driving at Reading Crown Court on January 7.
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The victim, Stephen Gibbons, 61, was cycling on the A322 Bagshot Road when he was hit by a Sainsbury's lorry on August 4 2018.
Mr Gibbons from Camberley passed away that day.
Mr Charles Royle, prosecuting, said: "It would appear that an obstacle in the road would have been seen but the reactions were too late to avoid it and his inattention."
Cassar was granted unconditional bail due to his "good character" and is disqualified from driving.
Judge Paul Dugdale said: "You have pleaded guilty to causing the death of Stephen Gibbons by the HGV you were driving. That is a serious offence which I know that you understand and that you may receive a custodial sentence.
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"You are a man in your mid-60s of very good character driving for Sainsbury's and have had a clean licence and you came forward to police. You stopped to see if you can identify the collision when you realised it was not a deer.
"Mr Cassar accepts he should have seen the bicycle. He stopped and presented himself to police, this is a case where full credit should be given.
"It is not a simple matter of knowing whether you did see something or didn't do something, he accepts that he was driving."
Vincent Paul Cassar will be sentenced on February 7 at Reading Crown Court.
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