Summary
- Vanessa Sagnay de la Bastida, daughter of an Ecuadorian politician, was hit and killed by a speeding Mercedes car in front of her fiance in London.
- The driver, Octavian Cadar, admitted causing her death by careless driving but denied causing death by dangerous driving.
- Witnesses described the speeding vehicle’s revving sound and saw Ms. Sagnay somersault before landing on a railing.
- Cadar claimed he did not see the victim and implied the couple had been “messing around in the road” according to witness accounts.
