Now has 14 points on licence
A Port Erin woman with 14 points on her driving licence, after her latest conviction, has been spared a driving ban because she has a seriously ill child.
Forty-two-year-old Elizabeth Josephine Barton, of Cronk View Crescent, appeared before magistrates at Douglas Courthouse.
She initially denied driving without due care and attention but changed her plea shortly before a pre-trial review hearing was due to take place.
The hearing heard Barton was driving a loan car from a garage while her vehicle was having work done on it.
At around 10am, on 14 September last year, she was driving along Castletown Road in Port Erin when she braked sharply - she lost control of the Toyota and crashed into a wall.
Magistrates heard she already had 10 points on her licence - her advocate said if she was given a ban she would suffer exceptional hardship.
Barton received four penalty points but no ban – magistrates fined her £300 and ordered her to pay £100 towards prosecution costs.
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