AN 18-YEAR-OLD Ballachulish driver was banned from driving for 10 weeks and fined £450 when he appeared at Fort William Sheriff Court last week.
Lewis Bryson, of the village’s Park Road, who is employed as a machine operator, pleaded guilty to a charge of careless driving on the A82 between Fort William and Corrychurran on November 19 of last year.
Sheriff Eilidh MacDonald heard that on the night in question, at about 8.20pm, Bryson’s vehicle had passed through Fort William and travelling behind him were two police officers in a marked police car.