A woman was knocked down and killed by a lorry when she left her house for the first time after shielding for nine months during the coronavirus pandemic, an inquest heard.
Sarah Lewis, 62, became distracted by untangling her facemask from her handbag as she stepped into the road without looking.
At that moment, a lorry reversed onto the street and struck the woman.
Ms Lewis became trapped under the vehicle and was pronounced dead at the scene after being released.
An inquest heard that the woman was classed as clinically vulnerable during the Covid pandemic and spent nine months at home.
On November 16 last year she left her home for the first time to drop her car off at a garage in Weymouth, Dorset, for an MOT.
After waiting for a taxi, she crossed the road while trying to disentangle a mask from her handbag at the same time.
She wandered into the driver's blind spot as he reversed.
Lorry driver Karl Stanton said he turned off the radio, checked his mirrors and the road around him, but did not see Ms Lewis.
He said he had been forced to reverse because there were too many parked cars on the street in Lynch Lane, Weymouth.
He said: "On that day I just could not see anybody at all."
PC Leanne Steedman said that from the CCTV footage, Ms Lewis seemed to be "in a world of her own" as she handled her mask which was tangled in her bag.
Forensic collision investigator PC Kelvin Edge said CCTV footage showed Ms Lewis walking behind the lorry as it was reversing, putting her in the driver's blind spot.
He said Ms Lewis seemed unaware of the lorry until it was too late.
PC Edge said Mr Stanton had very few options and that he would have done the same manoeuvre.
A post mortem examination found Ms Lewis died from multiple injuries which were fatal.
Coroner Debbie Rookes told the Bournemouth inquest that there was no evidence Ms Lewis intended to take her life and that it appeared she was completely unaware of the lorry's presence.
She concluded that Ms Lewis died from injuries caused by the accident and gave her condolences to all the victim's loved ones.
She also stated she would be writing to the Secretary of State for Transport, Grant Shapps, to ask him to consider making rear-view cameras on the back of large goods vehicles mandatory.
