AN "INDEPENDENT" pensioner and former secretary to a Rolls-Royce managing director died after riding her mobility scooter into a road and colliding with a lorry.Jean Baker's son, Alan, told her inquest that having a scooter "put 10 years on her life" as it enabled her to go out and enjoy retirement.But as she rode it to the shops on December 7 last year, the bright and low sun "is likely to have accounted for" her pulling out into the street and under the...
