Tom Le Prevost in intensive care in the Princess Elizabeth Hospital where he was for 10 days after he crashed his car in February. (Picture courtesy of the Le Prevost family)

A DUE care and attention driving court case might easily have been an inquest, assistant-Magistrate Cherry McMillen told Tom Le Prevost.

She said that while his remorse for his careless driving was genuine, he was lucky that he had not been killed.

‘It was more by luck than by design that I am not holding an inquest for you,’ she said yesterday. ‘This accident was horrific and it had horrific consequences for you. It has taken courage on your part to acknowledge your responsibility’

Inspector Roger Robilliard told the court that Mr Le Prevost had lost control of his Nissan Skyline and crashed it into a granite pillar at North Side, St Sampson’s, in the early hours of 17 February.

Advocate Jessica Roland said her client believed he was driving at around 45mph. He accepted that he was to blame for the accident.

Miss McMillen accepted that he took full responsibility. ‘I sentence you on the basis this was an accident,’ she said. ‘You did not intend this.’

But she said Mr Le Prevost had to be disqualified to send out the message that driving without due care and attention carried with it serious consequences.