A headteacher at a top London private school has admitted to driving without due care after she left a cyclist with a broken wrist.
Catherine Hitchcock, 49, headmistress of £20,000-a-year Donhead Preparatory School, caused cyclist Robert Atkinson to fracture his wrists when she pulled into his path at a mini roundabout on Belvedere Grove in Wimbledon, south-west London on February 10.
Ms Hitchcock, who is also a governor of Putney High School, did not hit the cyclist with her Peugeot but caused him to fall forward onto his handlebars and off his bike, sustaining his injury.
The accident took place in the affluent
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