Two people have been fined thousands of dollars and banned from the roads after they admitted causing grievous bodily harm through careless driving.

Tishae Davis, 32, pleaded guilty to the offence at Magistrates’ Court yesterday after initially maintaining her innocence.

The court heard that Davis was driving a car on Serpentine Road in Pembroke and was attempting to manoeuvre a roundabout when she collided with another driver, who was on a motorcycle.

Police at the scene heard that the rider would have been visible from her right side.

Davis, however, told officers that she believed the other driver would slow down for her.

The victim suffered a fractured wrist and a bruised thigh in the incident, which happened on December 13, 2023.

Davis, from Paget, admitted fault for the collision but initially denied responsibility for the injuries and pleaded not guilty.

Yesterday, however, she switched her plea, telling the court: “It was an honest mistake and I take full responsibility.”

The Crown initially asked for a $3,000 fine, but Nicole Smith, for the defence, requested the penalty to be halved, as most of the damages had been compensated by insurance.

She asked that the mandatory two-year road ban be altered to allow her client access to a motorcycle to attend work.

Magistrate Craig Attridge said he could not alter the terms of the driving ban, but fined Davis $2,000.

Mathias Logan, 77, also admitted causing grievous bodily harm to a motorcyclist while driving without due care and attention.

The court heard that Logan attempted to make a right-hand turn off North Shore Road in Hamilton Parish when a motorcyclist collided with his car.

The impact threw the rider from his bike and over a wall.

Police arrived to process the scene and Logan admitted during an interview that he had not used his signal before turning.

The incident happened on March 28 last year.

The rider broke his leg in two places and required skin grafts.

His motorcycle and the side of Logan’s car were also badly damaged.

Mr Attridge fined Logan, from Warwick, $1,500 for the offence and ordered him to pay $500 that day and the rest by the end of the month.

When informed that he would also be banned from the roads for two years, Logan said: “The last time I was off the road was in 1977 — do I at least get a pass for that?”

However, Mr Attridge told him his previous record made no difference.

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