The US government employee argued she was a “safe driver” during a voluntary interview with police two months after the 2019 crash; the transcript was read aloud to the coroner’s court on Wednesday.
“I drove like an American and drove on the American side of the road,” Sacoolas said to Northamptonshire Police when asked what she thought caused the collision, according to the inquest, which is being held without her presence.
In a witness testimony, Sacoolas stated that she would think about the fatal crash from August of that year “every single day for the rest of my life”.
A family representative for Mr. Dunn Radd Seiger responded to the claims that Sacoolas had given the court, saying, “We have heard most of that before.
“Why on Earth is Sacoolas not in court to answer the court’s and the family’s questions?”
Sacoolas was granted diplomatic immunity by the US State Department, allowing her to depart Britain 19 days following the incident.
\In December 2022, she appeared via video connection before a High Court judge at the Old Bailey, where she entered a guilty plea to causing death by careless driving.
