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Pensioner banned from the road after hitting cyclist

Personal trainer spent a week in hospital with broken bones

A Glen Vine man who put a cyclist in hospital after running her over in his BMW has been fined.

Seventy-one-year-old Michael Reginald John Fuller, of Ballagarey Road, was sentenced at Douglas Courthouse.

He'd pleaded not guilty to causing serious bodily harm by driving without due care an attention but changed his plea to guilty the day before he was due to stand trial.

The woman was cycling along Old Church Road, in Crosby, at around noon on 29 December 2020.

As Fuller turned right, into a recycling depot, he hit her – throwing her over the bonnet of his car and leaving her with a broken arm, wrist and thighbone.

She spent a week in Noble's Hospital and required extensive physiotherapy - in a victim impact statement said she'd lost her job as a personal trainer as a result.

When interviewed by police Fuller said he'd been going just 5mph and had been blinded by the sun.

He was fined £500, ordered to pay £2,000 compensation to the woman he hit, and banned from the roads for a year.

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