OAP ran over drunk darts fan
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The OAP motorist has had six points put on her licence after admitting careless driving at Paisley Sheriff Court.
Defence lawyer Charlie McCusker told how his client had surrendered her licence and was “very, very upset” by what happened.
He said: “This has been tragic for everybody involved.
“She saw something on the road and thought it was a cardboard box.
“She had seen something on the road and failed to recognise it was a person.
“She is 80 years of age now and has been driving for 64 years with a clean licence.”
The court heard the driver felt a bump, like she hit a speed bump, after mowing him down.
Rodger was placed on life support and suffered a fractured pelvis and ribs, a shattered wrist and broken shoulder and arm.
The court heard a taxi driver had to swerve around him just moments earlier after he staggered onto the carriageway.
But the cab’s passengers watched in horror as Miller’s car approached what then looked like a “pile of bins bags on the road” before it lurched over him.
Emergency services rushed to the scene and closed the road.
Prosecutor Hazel Emmerson told how Johstone man Rodgers had been drinking at a darts tournament all day before wandering into the street and falling.
Miller passed a breath and sight test after the accident around 11pm in Campbell Street, Johnstone, on December 21, 2015.
She had been facing a dangerous driving rap, but her plea to the lesser charge was accepted.
Sheriff Max Hendry warned the driver would have faced a stiffer penalty.
He said: “You originally faced a charge of dangerous driving and the consequences of that would have been very much more severe.
“The Crown has now accepted that it was careless driving, and there is no suggestion that, up until perhaps a very few seconds before this happened, your driving had been anything other than competent. It seems that you made a misjudgement, albeit one with serious consequences.”
Miller, of Port Glasgow Road, Kilmacolm, was fined £200 and had her licence endorsed.