Maserati driver, 66, who killed woman in wet-road crash walks free with suspended sentence and four-year ban
Sharon Berry, who died after Ronald Dowling lost control of his Maserati on a wet road in Torfaen in October 2023, leaving two other women seriously injured.The wrecked Maserati Quattroporte belonging to Ronald Dowling, whose careless driving on the A4042 also left two women from the Caerphilly area seriously injured.
Ronald Dowling, 66, has walked free from Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court after killing Sharon Berry when he lost control of his grey Maserati Ghibli on a wet road and smashed into her black Audi. Berry, 54, from the Bridgend area, suffered life-threatening injuries in the crash on the A4042 near the Rechem roundabout in Torfaen on 26 October 2023 and later died in hospital.
PC Spencer Clease said Dowling 'did not drive to the required competent and careful driving standard'.
Both injured women came from the Caerphilly area and needed hospital treatment after the Torfaen smash.
'Careless driving ruins lives,' the officer warned, urging motorists to drive carefully in all conditions.
