The mother of a cyclist killed by a teen driver who straddled the centre line going up a busy Christchurch hill has forgiven the youngster. Robert Kruger, 18, was on a restricted licence and driving with an unlicensed passenger when he hit 33-year-old cyclist Thomas John Alton at about 6.45pm on February 20.
Police found that although he wasn't speeding, Kruger was going uphill too fast to negotiate a 35km/h blind bend on Parklands Dr in the hillside Huntsbury suburb when he moved into the opposite lane.
English-born Alton had gone just 150m from home and was travelling quickly, pushed further into his lane because of parked cars, Christchurch District Court heard today, when he was struck.
He died in hospital four days later.
Kruger earlier admitted a charge of careless driving causing death.