A man exited an intersection on his electric scooter while disqualified and without a license and immediately collided with a car. Ryan Thomas, 19, from Pendre, Bridgend, obtained the scooter for transport while he was disqualified, not realizing he also needed a license to ride it.
On 30 June 2022, officers were called to an accident on Serdin Avenue, Bridgend and found that Thomas’ electric scooter had collided with a Nissan Qashqai. The footage shows Thomas exiting the intersection at high speed, immediately colliding with a car and being thrown off the scooter.
On February 10, 2023, a sentencing hearing at Newport Crown Court revealed that when police arrested Thomas, he repeatedly asked, “I’m in trouble, am I going to jail?” Thomas had already been convicted of multiple driving offenses just three months before the electric scooter accident, when (in March 2022) he turned onto the highway in the wrong direction and collided with a car carrying mother and child “almost straight ahead”. which resulted in both of them being injured. You can receive more court news and other news straight to your inbox by signing up for our newsletters here.
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The judge in the case sentenced him to eight months in prison with a two-year suspension, banned him from driving for two years, imposed an electronically monitored curfew on him and ordered him to undergo 35 days of rehabilitation. Thomas’ lawyer told the court that he was unaware that a license was required to drive an electric scooter.
The court heard that Thomas’ grandfather had bought him a car as a means of transportation while he was suspended from driving. To this, the judge replied, “He’s got two legs for that”, but heard that Thomas and his family were unaware of the need for a license.
After the electric scooter accident, Thomas gave a “no comment” interview to police, but later pleaded guilty. He has already had seven convictions for 15 crimes, most recently in April 2022 for causing harm.
The judge, Mr. Recorder RJ Philpotts, took into account the guilty plea, the fact that Thomas deliberately did not choose to sit behind the wheel of the car while disqualified, and the contents of the pre-sentencing report.
Speaking about future father Thomas, the judge said: “The way you carried yourself that day was like a child.” Thomas was sentenced to six months in a juvenile facility for both crimes.
Source: Wales Online
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