MOTHER of two, Carol Cruz was killed on the beach at St Anne's, Lancashire in August 2002.
The 38-year-old victim was hit by Mr Warren's three-wheeled sand yacht whilst walking along the beach with her two sons, then aged 12 and 14.
Adrian Warren, 49, of Cedar Road, Doncaster, denied the manslaughter of Carole Cruz, during a sand yacht race.
He called Mrs Cruz's death a "terrible and tragic accident".
In a statement read out by his solicitor Peter Turner outside court, following the verdict, he said he did not regard his acquittal as a "triumph of any sort".
"I have been living with the unbearable knowledge that I was the pilot of that sand yacht for over two years," he said.
"My pain can't be measured against the loss and pain felt by Carole Cruz's family.
"I can only hope that at sometime in the future they will come to forgive me."
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