I wrote in March about an idiot driver who came up an exit slip road the wrong way and caused a serious incident on the A90 near Aberdeen, Scotland.
Shazida Begum, who was 20 at the time, has been banned for 2 years and fined £700 for causing the accident. She escaped unharmed, but one of the lorry drivers had to spend the night in hospital. She was found guilty of dangerous driving and has been ordered to resit her driving test. There is a bit more detail in this report, too.
Reading the article, you can only wonder at the part where it says:
Witnesses at the scene found Begum crouched on the passenger seat of her damaged car talking on her mobile phone, the court heard.
I wonder why? The other puzzling thing is why on earth she isn’t required to sit an extended test. She obviously can’t drive properly, and her own defence lawyer said:
It was very poor driving that falls far below the expected standard.
The understatement of the year. And it’s also worth remembering that if anyone had been killed, she could have been looking at a 14 year jail term. It was only by luck that no one was.