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BMW Driver Convicted In Dog Walker Killing

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Feb 9, 2010 8:14 am US/Eastern

BMW Driver Convicted In Dog Walker Killing

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Click to enlarge 1 of 1: Elizabeth Powers McCaffrey was killed while walking her dog near her home on Wachusett Street.
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A member of a BMW car club who was out driving with other BMW enthusiasts when he struck and killed a woman walking her dog has been convicted of motor vehicle homicide.

David Conant was convicted in Fitchburg District Court on Monday after a two-day bench trial of striking 54-year-old Elizabeth Powers McCaffrey in November 2008 just yards from her Leominster home.

She died at a hospital hours later.

Sentencing is scheduled for Tuesday.

Prosecutors said the 29-year-old Conant was driving the lead vehicle in a group of BMWs along residential streets.

Police estimated he was driving 62 miles per hour in a 40-mile-per-hour zone.

Conant's lawyer, who was driving the BMW directly behind him at the time of the accident, suggested that McCaffrey was crossing the street illegally.

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