was taken to hospital with serious injuries<\/a> and died five weeks after the crash.<\/p>\nRandall fled the scene of the crash and his van was later found parked at a lock-up on Narroway Road.<\/p>\n
CCTV footage was analysed to trace the van’s route, leading to the seizure of the van and the arrest of the 34-year-old.<\/p>\n
Randall pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving when he appeared at Bristol Crown Court in January 2026, and his sentencing hearing took place on Monday, April 20.<\/p>\n
Randall was sentenced to five years and six months in prison and he was also given a 93-month driving ban. Before he has his licence returned, he must complete an extended driving test.<\/p>\n
DC Jakob Meikle, the investigating officer, said: “A small justice has been done in the sentencing of a reckless and cowardly individual who attempted to avoid the consequences of his actions and the damage he caused Philip’s family.<\/p>\n
“They will forever be impacted by this incident and my thoughts go out to them.”<\/p>\n
In a statement read out at the sentencing hearing, Mr Cole’s niece, said the impact of his death was “greater than anyone could ever know”.<\/p>\n
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Philip Cole(Image: Avon and Somerset Police )<\/p>\n
She said: “It is impossible trying to put into words the impact of Philip’s death. Sitting at his side watching the constant care needed, the glimmer of hope as he made it through each day, only to be given the heartbreaking news five weeks later that there was nothing else the doctors could do.<\/p>\n
“Witnessing end of life care of a loved one has been the hardest thing we have had to deal with. The haunting memories forever with us. It feels like we have been living in a nightmare every day since.<\/p>\n
“Our lives were completely turned upside down on the 18th January 2024 and will never be the same again.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pedestrian Philip Cole was walking to collect his newspaper when he was struck down Police and cordon on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":941774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,30,393,4884,9417,16,15],"class_list":["post-941773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bristol","tag-bristol","tag-britain","tag-courts","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-st-philips","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116528281405809010","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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