taxi driver has been allowed to keep his driving licence after leaving a passenger with a broken leg and a 29-inch scar - by reversing over her when she left his car.Gerald Burns was fined £600 for striking Maria Reid, who has since sadly died, seconds after dropping her off outside her home.He also had seven penalty points placed on his licence, meaning his licence will not be banned from driving and can continue to work as a cabbie.Burns, 53, was unaware she had stopped behind his vehicle to catch her breath and reversed over her, believing she was actually a pothole.
He left her with a fracture to her right femur, "extreme pain to her right knee and bruising and tenderness to her shoulder" and she was rushed to hospital for.
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