A rubbish truck driver who struck and killed a grandmother throughout a three-point flip in Sydney’s west has prevented jail, after a court docket heard he’s devastated by his actions and can carry the incident with him for the remainder of his life.

Christopher Sultana, 34, was emptying bins in Chester Hill on the morning of February 23, 2021, when he reached the tip of a residential avenue and rotated at an intersection to entry the bins on the alternative aspect.

Ruiming Zhang, 84, who had been on her common morning stroll, crossed the highway because the truck accomplished the three-point flip and was within the car’s blind spot when it started to drive ahead at about 8.30am. She was hit and killed immediately.

On Wednesday, NSW District Courtroom Choose Sophia Beckett stated Sultana failed to note the lady approaching on the truck’s reversing digicam, which ought to have been a warning {that a} pedestrian was close by.

Vehicles had been crossing in entrance of the truck, the decide stated, which induced Sultana to show “important however momentary” inattention to the opposite actions round him.

Sultana pleaded responsible to negligent driving inflicting dying over the incident, and was acquitted in a judge-alone trial of the extra severe cost of harmful driving occasioning dying.

Beckett convicted Sultana on Wednesday and sentenced him to a two-year group corrections order, which requires him to finish 200 hours of group service, bear counselling and full the site visitors offenders program.

He has additionally been disqualified from driving for 2 years, ranging from the date of the crash.

The decide stated Sultana “successfully suffered a breakdown” after the incident and expressed instant regret, asking police if he may contact the sufferer’s household to ship a card or flowers. Police suggested him this might not be applicable.