A teenage motorcyclist who broke his leg in a crash was yesterday banned from the roads until 2024.

Shelton Dowling, 19, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to driving while disqualified, careless driving, ignoring a traffic sign and riding an unlicensed motorcycle.

The court heard that Dowling was riding the wrong way down Khyber Pass, a one-lane street in St George’s, on January 10 when he collided head on with a car.

Police attended the scene and Dowling was taken to the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital for treatment.

An investigation into the crash showed that there were several signs at both ends of Khyber Pass that identified it as a one-way street.

Police records revealed that Dowling, from St George’s, had been banned from the roads on November 26 last year and was not eligible to drive again until May, 2022.

Police also found that the motorcycle he rode was not licensed.

Officers later traced Dowling and charged him with the offences.

Nicole Smith, for the Crown, told the court that Dowling suffered two broken bones in his left leg, as well as a hairline fracture along his left shoulder blade and road rash along the left side of his body.

She added that the car he collided with suffered “significant damage”.

Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo fined Dowling a total of $2,150 and added an additional 18 months to his earlier driving ban.

He also warned Dowling: “You could have killed yourself or someone else.”

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