Driver who caused collision in Inverness is ordered to pay compensation
A driver has been banned for 10 months for running into the back of another vehicle at traffic lights in Inverness city centre.
Kobie Munro (41), formerly of Canal Terrace, Inverness, but now living in France, pleaded guilty to a charge of careless driving committed on November 13, 2018.
Inverness Sheriff Court heard the accident happened at 9am in the city’s Kenneth Street.
Munro’s vehicle ran into a stationary car being driven by a 71-year-old man, damaging the tow-bar and underside of the vehicle.
Defence solicitor Willie Young previously told the court that Munro had been suffering from depression at the time and there was a lack of attention on his part.
“He anticipated the driver would have been moving off,” he said. “It was an incorrect assumption.”
He told the court that Munro had another conviction for driving with an impairment from medication he was on and had been banned for three years in connection with that incident.
Sheriff Sara Matheson handed down a driving ban of 10 months.
She also ordered Munro to pay £315 compensation to the other driver.
