A BORDERS nurse has been convicted of causing the death of a pensioner by careless driving following a three-day jury trial at Jedburgh Sheriff Court.
Forty-eight-year-old Angela Hislop, from Kelso, was found guilty of the charge by a majority verdict and sentence was deferred until January 20 for background reports.
Seventy-two-year-old Janette Davidson was killed in the crash which happened on the B6397 road near Floors Castle on November 11, 2022.
Hislop had been returning from a 12-and-a-half-hour shift at Borders General Hospital when the collision happened.
She was convicted of driving without due care and attention and failing to maintain proper observations and driving into the opposite lane when it was unsafe to do so.
Hislop received an interim driving disqualification.
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