Uninsured driver 'panicked' after causing three-vehicle crash on Inverness bridge
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A 23-year-old Inverness man took and drove away a friend's car without permission and then caused a three-car collision on a bridge over the River Ness.
Jamie Glass, of Caledonian Road, was also an uninsured driver when the incident took place on April 30, 2022 at about 4.45pm on Friar's Bridge.
He admitted driving carelessly at excessive speed and without keeping proper observation, collided with a stationary vehicle causing it to be shunted forward into another car.
Glass then drove away without reporting the crash.
He admitted all three offences.
At Inverness Sheriff Court, Glass also pleaded guilty to being in charge of a car with too much cocaine in his system on June 3, 2022.
His reading was 23mcgs in one litre of blood when the legal limit is 10mcgs.
Glass was still uninsured at the time police found him in a broken down car in Millburn Road.
Defending, John MacColl said: "He was guilty of poor decision making. He panicked on the bridge and left the scene."
Sheriff Ian Cruickshank fined Glass a total of £840 and banned him from driving for a year.
