Taxi driver who injured girls given two-month ban
Friday 16th July 2010, 2:59PM BST.
Emergency services personnel at the scene of the accident on La Rue a Don, Gorey, last September
FOUR teenage girls were left with serious injuries – which included a broken neck, broken back and two broken pelvises – after a taxi driver ploughed into them on his way to pick up a fare, the Magistrate’s Court heard yesterday.
The 63-year-old taxi driver, Mathew Howard-Houston, of Wellington Road, admitted careless driving in Rue à Don on 25 September and was fined £650, disqualified from driving for two months and ordered to retake a driving test.
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Seems to be a bit lenient for what he did. I would have expected a prison sentance at the very least.
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