Published date: 21 July 2016 |
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A MOTORCYCLIST was thrown into the air when he was hit by a car being driven too fast around a bend by an uninsured teenage driver.
James Creedy and a passenger then left the scene, ignoring pleas by the victim to phone for an ambulance.
David Christopher Jones asked them to call for help but one of them replied “no” and left him in great pain.
Creedy, 19, of Moorfields, Holywell, was sentenced to a total of 36 weeks in a young offenders institute after he admitted failing to stop following an accident and being in breach of an earlier suspended sentence.
He was also banned from driving for two years.
He also admitted careless driving, having no licence and no insurance following the incident at Pentre Halkyn on May 11.
Flintshire Magistrates Court heard how he had not learnt his lesson because he was a few weeks later caught driving without a licence or insurance again.
He admitted stealing cider and lager on consecutive days from the Co-operative store in Holywell and failing to turn up in court on an earlier occasion.
District judge Gwyn Jones said Creedy had been driving a blue Vectra car when he was in a collision with a motorcyclist. He had been driving at a fast speed and was involved in a head-on collision.
He said the rider was thrown off the machine onto the grass verge but Creedy left the scene.
The judge told him: “It is clear you had no regard to what injuries the motorcyclist had suffered.”
The victim had been in a bad way but he and his friend made good his escape.
It was clear he had scant regard for court orders, the judge said.
Prosecutor Helen Tench said Mr Jones was riding his motorcycle near the top of the hill and was due to go around a right hand bend when Creedy approached from the other way.
The car was travelling too fast and there was a head-on collision when Mr Jones was thrown from his machine.
But the driver and passenger made off without making any effort to help the rider.
When a woman stopped and asking where they were going, one of them replied “just going for a pi.. .”
In a statement, Mr Jones said there was nowhere to go, there was a loud bang and he was thrown through the air.
Emergency services attended and he had broken a shin bone and fibular, needed three separate operations and was in hospital for nine days.
He would be unable to work for at least six months with a loss of earnings and his motorcycle had been written off at a cost of £2,400.
Interviewed, Creedy said he went by bus to pick up the car from Denbigh, left with another person he did not name and was involved in a collision on a country road.
He claimed to have asked the rider if he was okay and that he had asked someone else to phone from an ambulance but he panicked and left.
Creedy said he had taken the corner faster than he should and felt “really bad”.
Mrs Tench said it was a classic case of why people should not drive uninsured.
Gary Harvey, defending, said Creedy was already under a suspended sentence. “He is preparing himself for custody for the first time in his life.”
Creedy had been working on a self-employed basis in block paving in the Rhyl area, had always worked and never claimed benefits.
He recognised he should not be driving without a licence or insurance and was remorseful.
Mr Harvey added: “He says he did go up to see if the rider was okay.
“It was not life-threatening and he accepts leaving the scene.
“He panicked because he did not have insurance and he was not supposed to drive.”
The victim could be compensated by the scheme set up to cover uninsured drivers, Mr Harvey said.
The judge made a deprivation order in respect of both vehicles he had driven.
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