Twelve months imprisonment and a five-year ban from driving a motorcycle.

That was the punishment meted out to Haytham Markos for nearly killing vibrant widow Dorrianne Armstrong Sears after his speeding motorcycle crashed into her on a Yonge St. sidewalk on April 6, 2014.

Justice Edward Morgan imposed the sentence against Markos, 31, on Friday for dangerous driving causing bodily harm.

The victim’s moving impact statement “was a very dignified but powerful statement. One would have to bereft of feelings not to be moved by it,” said Morgan, who watched a dash cam video of the dangerous driving and collision.

The devastating impact transformed a fiercely independent, healthy woman into a dependent, frail woman “who can no longer live” her old life, said Morgan.

“In an instant, her life changed forever,” he said. “Markos’ motorcycle came careening toward her on the sidewalk after it hit the southbound vehicle. It crashed into her and put her through the plate glass window of the coffee shop.”

Her next memory was waking up in a hospital bed three months later. Her face was unrecognizable due to multiple facial fractures.

The now 70-year-old woman suffered broken bones in her neck, between her shoulders and lower back as well as broken ribs, a broken arm, collapsed lung and fractured pelvis.

The collision occurred because Markos was speeding and passing cars by whipping around them to the left and then to the right and in between two lanes of vehicles, said Morgan.

Markos’ motorcycle crashed into a left-turning southbound vehicle near the corner of Yonge St. and Pleasant Blvd.

Markos said he’s sorry for Sears’ suffering, but he “continues to insist that his driving was ‘not that bad’ and he was not at fault,” said Morgan.

“Markos could have killed himself and it was a miracle that he did not kill Ms. Sears,” the judge said. “He could have also killed the driver of the vehicle that he hit.”

“Markos’ motorcycle was no match for the other driver’s rather bulky SUV,” said Morgan.

Sears, a former CEO of a European fashion company, said before the collision she was in “great shape.”

“I never owned a car,” the senior said. “I walked everywhere and had taken good care of myself so that I would have a good retirement and be able to travel everywhere and now I can’t because I’m unwell.”

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