pandemic – became momentarily distracted behind the wheel of his van and hit taxi driver Donald Pearson’s vehicle while he was driving the woman and her daughter – leaving all three of them with whiplash.
The woman also suffered a broken sternum in the collision on November 20 last year. Gillies, who has no previous offences, appeared at Paisley Sheriff Court this week, where it was heard he had been travelling on Kashmir Avenue shortly after leaving his home on Clippens Road around 2pm.
Gillies approached a road with a “slight left hand bend” but failed to turn into the corner correctly. Procurator fiscal depute Michael Cunningham told the court : “The vehicles began to approach each other on the bend. “The accused continued to drive in a.
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