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·27 April 2023
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·27 April 2023
A former Scottish footballer has been jailed for hitting and killing someone with his car by accident and then fleeing the scene.
44-year-old Craig Smart, a former centre-forward for Montrose, hit army veteran Dave McArthur with his employer’s white van in an incident in Fife.
Smart had allegedly been speeding, and ended up hitting McArthur at a zebra crossing, causing him head injuries that led to him dying in hospital two days later.
A police collision investigator said Smart “failed to observe, or react to, Mr McArthur on the zebra”.
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Smart’s sentence takes into account the fact that he fled the scene of the incident and switched off his phone to avoid being found.