Lorry driver admits causing death by careless driving but still charged with dangerous (23/5/11)

A lorry driver has admitted causing the death of a women who was waiting in her car at a set of traffic lights.

Julie Watson, 41, of North Ferriby, died when her car was crushed between the lorry and another car at the junction of the A164 and the A1079, known as Jock’s Lodge, close to Beverley.

Robert William Bulmer, 57, appeared before Hull Crown Court last week and pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving on May 23 last year.

However, he denied the charge of causing death by dangerous driving. Prosecutor Mark McKone told Hull Crown Court the guilty plea could not be accepted by the Crown. Bulmer, of Malton, North Yorkshire, will stand trial, accused of the more serious offence, in early May.

Judge Michael Mettyear, the honorary Recorder of Hull and the East Riding, told Bulmer: “I am going to direct the trial in this case will take place before a jury in May. You must attend for your trial. If you do not, you are committing an offence and it means the case might be heard in your absence. Between now and that date you can have bail as before.”

An inquest into the accident was postponed due to the charges brought against Mr Bulmer.