A widower who has led an eight-year campaign for a change in road safety laws has welcomed proposals that could result in life sentences for death by dangerous cycling.
Peter Walker's wife Diana, 76, was on her way home from a shop in May 2016 when she was hit by a cyclist in Pewsey, Wiltshire. She died in hospital on the following day.
After campaigning with other bereaved families, Mr Walker, 88, said his "dearest wish" was to spare others from going through the same.
The new laws – which could lead to cyclists who kill pedestrians facing life imprisonment – have been at committee stage and the Department for Transport (DfT) said they will be debated "in due course".
Mr and Mrs Walker had only recently moved into a retirement home and he had been expecting to spend many more years with his wife, who he said was a "very fit person" and a "wonderful mother".
Not only a loss to the family, he said she had been very active in the community too.
Mr Walker said she died the day after the incident because she was being kept on life support for organ donation.
"I don't want anybody to go through what I've had to go through," he said.
