News / Crash driver must re-sit test
A HAIRDRESSER who lost control of her car and smashed through a garden wall in Lerwick last year will have to sit her driving test once again.
On Wednesday Lerwick Sheriff Court heard how 19 year old Keri Brandish, of 32 Bosquoy Road, Kirkwall, was driving too fast down Gressy Loan, a steep hill which was extremely wet after a torrential downpour on 26 October.
Procurator fiscal Duncan Mackenzie said she braked as she reached the junction with Twageos Road, the wheels locked and she skidded across the junction into the garden wall with two passengers in the car.
Defence agent Tommy Allan said Brandish had passed her test 15 months earlier and as she was only insured third party, the insurance company would only cover the cost of repairing the garden wall. The £1,400 car on which she had just spent £500 was written off.
Brandish admitted careless driving and Sheriff Graeme Napier kept the fine to £200 because of the loss she had already incurred. However he did award six penalty points, which means she will revert to a provisional licence and must re-sit her driving test.
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