Nicky Butt has been banned from driving for 12 months and ordered to do 100 hours unpaid work after breaking a motorcyclist’s leg in a highway crash.
The previous Manchester United footballer was behind the wheel of his £100,000 Vary Rover and heading house after taking his son to soccer coaching in Burnley.
Butt, 49, then pulled out in entrance of a Honda bike ridden by Adam Fielding, 28, following a ‘momentary lapse of focus’, Blackburn Magistrates’ Courtroom heard.
Former Manchester United participant Nicky Butt arrives at Blackburn Magistrates’ Courtroom right this moment
Nicky Butt walks into Blackburn Magistrates’ Courtroom in Lancashire right this moment for his listening to
Nicky Butt has been banned from driving for 12 months at Blackburn Magistrates’ Courtroom right this moment
Mr Fielding suffered a damaged left leg and different accidents, spending two weeks in hospital after the crash which occurred on October 17, 2022 at round 8.10pm.
The sufferer has needed to have steel rods inserted in his leg, misplaced his job and has suffered psychological injury and is in fixed ache, the court docket was informed.
Butt, of Bowdon, Larger Manchester, informed the court docket in a press release: ‘I couldn’t be extra sorry.’ It is usually understood that he wrote an apology to Mr Fielden.
Butt, who admitted inflicting critical damage by careless driving at an earlier listening to, was additionally ordered to pay a £140 authorities surcharge and £85 prices.
Former Manchester United participant Nicky Butt arrives at Blackburn Magistrates’ Courtroom right this moment
Nicky Butt walks into Blackburn Magistrates’ Courtroom in Lancashire right this moment for his listening to
Talking at a earlier listening to in April, prosecutor Graeme Tindall mentioned: ‘What seems to have occurred is a variety of automobiles cross what seems to seem like a HGV.
‘Mr Butt having let the HGV come previous, pulls out and that is when Mr Fielden is coming previous on the bike.’
John Dye, defending Butt at that earlier listening to, mentioned: ‘The lack of his licence goes to be extraordinarily inconvenient to him and his household however that’s the inevitable consequence of this case.’
