IT’S ALL ROVER AS PHIL QUITS DRIVING SMALL
Duke hands in driving licence
Our story Duke in car and hit a car on January 17. He had to be pulled from his Land Rover Freelander after it flipped – Kia driver Ellie Townsend, 28, and her ninemonth-old son were unhurt. But passenger Emma Fairweather, 46, broke her Victim Emma had op wrist. Last night the mum-of-two said: “He’s making the most sensible decision he can. It’s a shame he didn’t make it a bit sooner but it’s the right thing to do.
“Undoubtedly the roads will be safer now. It won’t have been easy for him to make as it is a loss of independence. But he can work around it.” She said she had Duke’s Land Rover done “nothing but cry” this week after having an op to screw a metal plate into her arm. Two weeks ago care support worker Emma, of King’s Lynn, Norfolk, told the Sunday Mirror how Philip belatedly sent a letter of apology to her.
But despite giving up driving the Duke may still face a court case. Last night Norfolk Police confirmed the Duke had handed them his licence and said it had passed a file on the crash to the CPS.
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