A driver who knocked down a 76-year-old woman in Tarbert was fined £450 and given seven penalty points.
Lynne Alexandra MacFie, 50, of 1 High Park, Tarbert, pleaded guilty at Campbeltown Sheriff Court last Thursday, February 7, to one charge of driving without due care and attention or consideration towards other people at 2.35pm on May 9 last year. The charge further stated MacFie failed to keep a proper lookout, failed to adjust her speed for the road conditions, or comply with road markings and collided with a pedestrian, causing her to fall to the ground to her severe injury.
Procurator fiscal depute Eoin McGinty told the court that at the time of the accident the complainer was walking slowly, aided by a stick. MacFie was turning into Harbour Street from School Road when she hit the pedestrian, who was thrown onto the road. The complainer suff ered multiple fractures and can only walk round her home with the help of a zimmer frame.