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Jail for I.-driver who ran away from truck crash

2nd November 1995
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• The holder of a provisional WV driving licence, who ran away after crashing his truck into a house while driving unaccompanied has been sent to prison for six months and fined £1,620 after admitting a number of offences.

Sean Sheeran, of Horse Hill Lane, Hookwood, pleaded guilty before Redhill magistrates to failing to stop after an accident, driving without insurance, not having L-plates on ving unaccompanied by a qualified driver while holding a provisional licence, failing to enter details on a tachograph chart, using a chart for more than 24 hours, and using a vehicle when the tacho had not been checked for two years. At an earlier hearing he had also pleaded guilty to two charges of driving while disqualified and two further charges of driving without insurance.

For the prosecution Gerry Regan said that last October a 32

tonne Leyland artic tipper being No other sentence driven by Sheeransouthbound on was appropriate in the A217 skidded view of Sheeran's and crashs h oe dp pi into t ae total disregard for the Yew Tree pubon Reigate Hill. the safety of others Sheeran left the vehicle and ran the vehicle, drioff, not reporting the accident

until the following day.

Sheeran had been disqualified from driving by Loughborough magistrates in March, said Regan. He had subsequently been seen driving by the police on consecutive days in August, stopped and arrested.

Sentencing Sheeran to six months' imprisonment for the two offences of driving while disqualified, the chairman of the magistrates said he had blatantly disregarded a court order.

Ordering Sheeran to serve a month's concurrent imprisonment for failing to stop after an accident, he said that no other sentence was appropriate in view of Sheeran's total disregard for the safety of others.

The magistrates also fined Sheeran £160 on each of the three tachograph offences, £360 on each of the offences of driving a vehicle without insurance, £60 for not having L-plates on the lorry, and £60 on each of three offences of using a vehicle without a test certificate.


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