Worker who crashed into parked car left boss with £1,360 bill

20-year-old admits driving without due care and attention

A Kirk Michael man who caused hundreds of pounds of damage to a parked car after crashing into it has been fined.

Twenty-year-old James Gordon Collister, of Christian Avenue, was sentenced at Douglas Courthouse after admitting failing to stop at, or report, an accident and driving without due care and attention.

Collister had been working for a building firm and was in his van, in a car park, outside the former Waterfall pub in Glen Maye on 9 August last year.

A witness in another car watched as Collister tried to squeeze between two parked vehicles badly damaging a Honda Jazz.

His boss later asked him about the damage to the van but he denied knowing about it – only admitting he'd caused it after police contacted his employer.

But he ignored repeated requests from the police to be interviewed over the crash leaving his boss with a £1,360 bill to cover the damage to both vehicles.

Collister was fined £650 and ordered to pay £50 towards prosecution costs - magistrates also imposed eight points on his licence leaving him a point short of a driving ban.