Grandad banned from road for hit-and-run crash in a CEMENT MIXER

A man has been banned from the roads for 12 months over a hit and crash in a cement mixer he was driving. Grandad Anthony Wiseman, 45, had previously escaped disqualification under the totting up procedure in December, 2020, after arguing he suffered from OCD and his children would be 'hit financially' by a driving ban.

But a court heard he was witnessed on CCTV earlier this year crashing into a parked Vauxhall Corsa on a cement mixer he was driving as part of the construction of Everton Football Club's new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock.

During the incident he was seen to check his own vehicle and ignore damage caused to the Corsa before driving off, magistrates heard.

At Wirral magistrates court, Wiseman, from St Helens, Merseyside, tried to advance a new argument under exceptional hardship rules in a bid to avoid a ban, saying he needed his car to ferry his five year-old granddaughter to hospital for heart transplant appointments. His pleas, however, were rejected by the bench.

Wiseman pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention and failing to stop and report an accident. The collision occurred on January 21 at 8.25am, when Wiseman entered Highfield Street, Liverpool, on a revolving cement mixer.

Matt Routley, prosecuting, said: "Mr Wiseman reverses along Highfield Street without taking care to check behind him for other road users or obstructions in the road, or use another person to guide him. The front of the vehicle swung around unfortunately causing damage to a parked car."

Mr Routley said the cement mixer continued to strike the car during and attempt to reverse and that once Wiseman realised he had collided with the Corsa, he pulled forward and completed the manoeuvre. "He got out of the vehicle