Jury finds Tracey Pitt guilty of causing injury in reckless driving caseBy Owain Johnston-BarnesA Paget woman was remanded into custody after being found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm to twin brothers by reckless driving.The defendant, 51-year-old Tracey Pitt, was further convicted by a unanimous verdict of refusing a demand by police to give a breath sample.However she was found not guilty of the more serious count of causing grievous bodily harm by impaired driving.Pitt had denied a series of six offences in connection to a January 29, 2012, collision which caused serious injury to 36-year-old brothers Rudolph and Randolph Smith.During the course of the three-and-a-half week Supreme Court trial, the jury heard the brothers were walking to their home on Euclid Avenue in Devonshire at around 2.20am when they were struck by Pitt, who was driving south on Woodlands Road.Both victims told the court that the last thing they remembered before waking up in hospital was discussing football outside the entrance to the Bermuda Athletic Association.Forensic experts agreed that the twins were both in the road when they were struck, and that neither man was standing when the collision occurred.The victims were then dragged underneath the car more than 40ft before the vehicle came to a complete stop.Arresting officer PC Tavoris Douglas told the court that Pitt was arrested at the scene after she admitted having two glasses of red wine.He also said Pitt’s breath smelled of alcohol and she appeared unsteady on her feet.Pitt initially agreed to submit to a breath test, but Sgt Narase Samaroo testified that once in the alco-analyser room, she said she was confused and would not give a sample.Speaking in her own defence, Pitt told the court that she had two glasses of red wine at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess in the evening before the crash, but denied being impaired.Pitt said at the time of the crash she was driving along the road when she saw the glare of high beams from a passing car.She slowed down due to the lights, but as soon as the vehicles crossed each other she felt her car hit something.It was only after she stopped the car that she saw the head of one of the men by her front tire and called 911.She also denied refusing to give a breath sample, telling the court she was willing but wanted to speak to a lawyer first.She told the court: “I’m very, very sorry for the injuries that Rudolph Smith and Randolph Smith sustained that night, but I wasn’t drunk and I wasn’t impaired. I wasn’t driving recklessly, I was driving carefully like I always do. I just didn’t see them lying in the road.”Prosecutor Takiyah Burgess however challenged Pitt’s version of events, suggesting that she invented the story about glare from a passing car to match evidence put forward by a defence forensic investigator.In her closing remarks, Ms Burgess told the court Pitt was a reckless motorist who was attempting to delay a breath test because she thought she could be over the legal blood-alcohol limit.After more than three hours of deliberation, the 11-person jury found Pitt guilty of injuring both brothers by reckless driving by a majority decision of ten to one.Defense lawyer Victoria Pearman asked for Pitt to be released on bail until sentencing so she could make preparations in case she is incarcerated, Acting Justice Juan Wolffe remanded Pitt into custody until the October arraignments session.He also ordered that a social inquiry report be carried out prior to sentencing.Pitt was later escorted to a waiting Department of Corrections vehicle with her head down, remaining silent.