By Alisha Buaya For Mailonline
Published: 12:46 BST, 14 June 2019 | Updated: 12:46 BST, 14 June 2019
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An elderly father was killed after he stepping out onto a road while offering his daughter money for a taxi, an inquest has heard.
Gerald Smith, 80, who was deaf, was wearing his slippers when he saw his daughter, Susan Smith, 56, waiting at a bus stop across the road outside his home on Quarella Road in Bridgend, South Wales.
Pontypridd County Court heard Mr Smith walked into the path of a blue Renault Clio and hit the windscreen.
As he lay on the floor he told a paramedic: 'I'm sorry to bother you. It's my fault. I stepped out in the road. I'm deaf. I saw my daughter and I stepped out into the road.'
Deaf father Gerald Smith, 80 saw his daughter, Susan Smith, 56, waiting at a bus stop across the road outside his home on Quarella Road in Bridgend, South Wales (pictured). He crossed the