Prince Philip crash victim gets six month driving ban for unconnected offences

Woman fined and banned from driving for six months over four unconnected earlier motoring offences

Prince Philip crash victim gets six month driving ban for unconnected offences
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A woman who criticised Prince Philip following his road accident earlier this year has been given a driving ban over unrelated offences.

Emma Fairweather was a passenger in a Kia which was in collision with the Duke of Edinburgh’s Land Rover in Sandringham on 17 January.

She was sentenced in her absence at King’s Lynn Magistrates’ Court after admitting to two counts of speeding and two of failing to identify a driver accused of a speeding offence.

The offences of failing to identify the driver were alleged to have happened on 21 August 2018 and 3 October 2018.

Fairweather was fined £450 for the four offences, banned from driving for six months and ordered to pay £115 in costs.

Prince Philip crash

The Duke of Edinburgh said he was dazzled by low sun as he pulled out on to the A149 in Norfolk where he collided with Fairweather’s Kia.

A nine-month-old baby boy in the Kia was unhurt, but both Fairweather, who broke her wrist, and the driver were treated in hospital.

The prince’s car flipped over in the crash and he was rescued by a passing motorist.

Prince Philip later surrendered his driving licence and the Crown Prosecution Service said he faced no further action.

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