Andrea Stannah (right) is the wife of the head of Stannah Stairlifts, Nicholas Stannah (right)
The wife of the head of Stannah Stairlifts who killed a motorcyclist when she failed to stop her Land Rover at a dangerous junction has been spared jail.
A court heard Andrea Stannah had dropped her children off at school and was heading back to the family's £1million home when she pulled across a dual carriageway in her £47,000 Land Rover Discovery.
After failing to spot motorcyclist Steven Rayner, the two tonne 4x4 ploughed straight into him, sending the 56-year-old civil engineer careering into a tree and a fence.
The court heard a distraught Stannah, 45, who is married to Nicholas Stannah, managing director of Stannah Stairlifts Ltd, had to be 'dragged away' from Mr Rayner's body as she desperately tried to assist him.
The father-of-two, a highly-regarded structural engineer who had worked in the Middle East, Hong Kong and Malaysia, died at the scene.
Web designer Stannah, who attended court with her husband, admitted a charge of causing death by driving without due care and attention. She was sentenced to eight weeks in jail suspended for 12 months and ordering her to pay £200
It was heard Mr Rayner's death was due to her 'inattention' at the junction on the A31, less than a mile from her home in the village of Ovington, Hampshire, and her failure to spot his motorcycle as she turned right.
The junction at Rodfield Lane where Stannah failed to spot the motorcycle
Andrea Stannah (pictured above) was banned from the roads for a year after she failed to pause long enough at a dangerous junction
Stannah Stairlifts, which dates back to the 1860s and remains a family business, has an annual turnover of £210m.
Prosecutor Kerry Richardson told Basingstoke Magistrates' Court that witnesses driving on the carriageway in July last year braked to avoid Stannah's green 4x4 as it pulled out into the road, and saw the bike collide with its front near-side wing.
One - named only as Mr Goode - had been driving a bed delivery truck with a colleague in the passenger seat, which was overtaken by Mr Rayner before he pulled back into the left lane of the carriageway.
Nicholas Stannah (left) and Andrea Stannah (right) outside Basingstoke Law Courts
Ms Richardson said: 'The bike was cruising, but certainly wasn't going fast.
'Mr Goode saw a green 4x4 in the middle of the two carriageways.
'He said 'f*** f*** f***' to his colleague because he could see what was going to happen. The bike had nowhere to go.'
Mrs Tailford-East, who was driving a Vauxhall Corsa in the right-hand lane, said she had to brake heavily to avoid Stannah's 2012 Land Rover.
In a statement read to the court, she said: 'The 4x4 was travelling through the junction. As it came closer to the carriageway I was aware it was not going to stop.
'I had to apply my brakes heavily, along with a few choice words.
