Pop star fined for red light offence
POP singer Will Young was yesterday fined £160 and given three points for driving through a red light.
The 39-year-old committed the offence on November 5 last year at Bath Street in Glasgow.
Young, a songwriter and actor, was not present yesterday at Glasgow’s Justice of the Peace Court when the case was called, but he was represented by solicitor Stuart Munro.
The former Pop Idol winner and Leave Right Now singer’s lawyer pleaded guilty on his behalf.
In May this year Young was banned from driving after a man had to jump clear of the singer’s car which then crashed into a parked vehicle.
He was driving on the A68 through the Borders when the incident happened near Earlston, Berwickshire, on January 21.
Jedburgh Sheriff Court was told that the singer mistook a bollard for the central reservation and drove at around 40mph into a layby, in which a car was parked, before realising his mistake. He had earlier admitted driving without due care as well as at excessive speed for the weather conditions and for entering a layby.
Sheriff J Euan Edment imposed five penalty points for the incident and banned him from driving for six months.
Young already had 11 points on his licence as well as a drink-driving conviction from 1998.