A MOTORIST has today pleaded guilty to causing the death of a well-loved law firm employee while driving at four times the drink drive limit.
Stephen Terence Lees, 26, will be sentenced next month.
He was driving a BMW 320D along the A63 near his home in Cliffe when he collided with Mrs Nelson's Kia Picanto on May 11 this year.
Mrs Nelson, 60, of Reighton Avenue, Clifton, was declared dead at the scene. She had worked for many years for Harrowells at Haxby.
After the crash, Lees, of York Road, Cliffe, gave a breath test reading of 139 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35.
He was charged with causing Mrs Nelson's death by careless driving while drink driving and appeared before York Magistrates Court where his lawyer Stephen Smithson indicated that he was likely to admit the offence, but he had not yet received a police report into the crash.
Magistrates sent him to York Crown Court where at a preliminary hearing, his first opportunity to enter a plea and Lees pleaded guilty.
His case was adjourned for probation officers to prepare a report on him. He was bailed until November 24, when he will be sentenced.
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