Watten teenage driver failed to stop for police
A teenage driver was said to have panicked when he saw a police car signalling him to stop.
Robert Otley accelerated and disappeared, Wick Sheriff Court was told.
It proved to be a costly mistake for the 18-year-old and the provisional licence holder admitted having failed to stop when required by the officers and being unaccompanied by a qualified driver.
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The offences occurred on the A836 at the Thurso Business Park, on April 1.
Officers eventually traced the accused to a house in Spittal and he admitted having been the driver of the car.
Otley, of Greystones Farmhouse, Watten, was fined £400 on each charge and banned from driving for four months.
He also incurred six penalty points.
Sheriff Neil Wilson told him: "You made matters far worse by trying to evade justice."