Now Philip’s car crash ‘victim’ gets driving ban for speeding
A WOMAN who slammed Prince Philip after his car crash left her with a broken wrist has been banned from driving for six months.
Emma Fairweather, who was a passenger in a car which collided with the Duke of Edinburgh’s Land Rover earlier this year, was fined £450 for four motoring offences unrelated to the incident.
The 46-year- old, who had called for Philip to be prosecuted if he was found to be at fault for the Sandringham crash, was sentenced in her absence at King’s Lynn magistrates’ court in Norfolk yesterday. She admitted two counts of speeding and two of failing to identify a driver alleged to have been guilty of an offence last year.
She was charged after a Volkswagen Golf was caught breaking the 30mph limit in Taverham, Norfolk, in July and August last year. The failure to identify a driver relate to two more occasions, in August and October. An official said Fairweather, of Friars Street, Heacham, Norfolk, entered guilty pleas in writing and was sentenced behind closed doors. As well as the fine and driving ban, she was ordered to pay £115 in costs.
Prince Philip, 97, collided with a Kia car in January. He later said he was dazzled by low sun as he pulled out on to the busy A149 in Norfolk.
A nine-month-old boy in the Kia was unhurt, but both the driver and Fairweather were treated in hospital. She branded Philip ‘insensitive and inconsiderate’ after he was seen driving without a seatbelt 48 hours after the crash.
The duke later surrendered his driving licence and the Crown Prosecution Service said he would face no further action.