A Bay of Plenty truck driver who struck and killed an elderly pedestrian while looking for a Mitre 10 entrance has avoided losing his licence.

Margaret Stewart, 91, was at the traffic-light controlled crossing on Ruakura Rd on December 21 last year when she was hit by a truck driven by Alfred Grant Price of Mt Maunganui.

Price had earlier admitted careless driving causing death. He was travelling about 30kph along Ruakura Rd looking for the Mitre 10 Mega entrance when he failed to see Stewart crossing the road.

She was knocked over, hitting her head, and died at the scene.

A camera on the dash of Price's truck showed the pedestrian traffic lights had turned green nine seconds prior to Stewart, who used a walker, being hit.

Price, 62, was back in the Hamilton District Court this morning for sentencing by community magistrate Kathryn Wilson.

Stewart's family sat with Price's wife in the public gallery as his lawyer, Murray McKechnie, told the court he was extremely remorseful for what happened.

Both parties had successfully completed a restorative justice conference in which Stewart's nieces said they did not want him jailed - or to lose his licence for what happened.

Price told them he had never driven in the eastern area of Hamilton before and had been asked the day before to drop off a load of goods at Mitre 10 Mega.

He was looking at his side mirrors as well as an entrance when he saw a young man running across the road seconds before he hit Stewart.

Price immediately jumped out of the truck and called 111 and held Stewart's hand until emergency services arrived.

McKechnie made a last minute yet successful application for Price to not lose his licence, which is usually compulsory with the charge.

Wilson accepted Price's remorse was deep and genuine and that the family did not want to see him punished either.

Instead, she ordered Price to pay emotional harm reparation of $5000 to Stewart's estate.