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you would have thought, he might have considered someone might be crossing the road

A judge has said a police officer who left a teenage boy in a coma after crashing into him on a pedestrian crossing should keep his job – after his trial for dangerous driving dramatically collapsed.

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It came after an expert witness for the prosecution said Pc Richmond, who had his blue lights on when he approached the crossing at 42mph, was responding appropriately to an emergency request for help from a colleague.

Insp David Peach, a senior traffic officer at West Yorkshire Police, said: “I have no issues with the speed or equipment he was using at the time.”

He said he believed Pc Richmond had ‘a momentary lapse of concentration’ as he arrived at the crossing and should have slowed down.

Insp Peach told the court: “He hasn’t anticipated what has happened at that point.”

The jury found Pc Richmond not guilty of dangerous driving after prosecutor