Caithness 90-year-old spared driving ban after collision
A sheriff showed a 90-year-old first offender sympathy by not banning him from driving.
Anthony Bradford was instead fined £300 and incurred six penalty points after he admitted a charge of careless driving.
Wick Sheriff Court was told that he failed to maintain proper lane discipline and collided with a car being driven by Nicole Herd, negotiating a right hand bend, at Westfield, on October 3 last year.
Fiscal Depute Grant McLennan said that both vehicles were damaged after "clipping one another".
He added that there was "no way" Ms Herd could have avoided a collision.
Solicitor Fiona MacDonald said that Bradford, of Rehovot, Lochside, Reay, was "still driving at 90" and remarked that the accused had taken a decision not to drive since the accident, pending the outcome of the case.
She added that the accused held an unblemished licence which he needed to drive his wife, who has dementia, to Tesco.
Sheriff Neil Wilson also commented on Bradford's clean licence, and said he was not going to impose disqualification.
A not guilty plea to an additional charge, that the accused failed to stop after the accident, and give his details, was accepted by the fiscal depute.