A HOLIDAYMAKER was left in agony after a Whitby restaurant owner ran over his foot with his car following an argument outside his premises in Church Street.
The victim, Terry Walls, and his friends had to pull a child out of the way as Ian Christopher Ford reversed his 4x4 out onto the cobbled street on the afternoon of 29 October last year.
York Crown Court was told on Monday that Mr Walls remonstrat
ed with Ford, but as he then walked away he was struck by the vehicle and his foot was run over, leaving him with a fractured fibular.
Ford (48) of Carr Hill Lane, Briggswath, who runs Sanders Yard Restaurant in Church Street, pleaded guilty to a charge of dangerous driving.
He was banned from driving for 18 months and ordered to sit an extended driving test before getting back behind the wheel.
Ford was also placed under a Community Order for 12 months, ordered to complete 120 hours unpaid work, pay compensation of £1,500 and prosecution and defence costs totalling £1,500.
A denied charge of wounding Mr Walls was not proceeded with and a not guilty verdict entered.
Steven Gratage, prosecuting, said that Mr Walls, family, friends and their children were browsing the shops in Church Street along with many other people when the blue Honda driven by Ford reversed out into the road.
After the child was dragged out of the way, Mr Walls went to the open driver's window and remonstrated with the driver, his flailing arms catching the door mirror and bending it forward.
Mr Gratage said that as Mr Walls walked away, Ford shifted the vehicle into forward gear and drove after him, causing the injury.
He added that the victim, who had been holidaying in Scarborough and on a day visit to Whitby, had been left with a slight limp as a result of the fracture.
The court was told that Ford entered his guilty plea on the basis that he had only intended to remonstrate with Mr Walls about the mirror and had not intended to injure him in any way.
Anthony Kelbrick, mitigating, said that a driving ban would be a significant inconvenience for his client because of the logistics of getting to and from work and his partner's hospital appointments
Passing sentence, Recorder Andrew Campbell QC told Ford that he accepted that he was remorseful about what had happened and had now lost his previous good name.
