Prince Philip crash ‘victim’ is banned from driving for repeatedly speeding on roads near her home

PRINCE Philip’s crash “victim” was today banned from driving after repeatedly speeding on roads near her home.

Emma Fairweather, 46, was a passenger in a friend’s Kia which was hit by 97-year-old Philip’s Land Rover after he was dazzled by the sun on January 17.

She was left with a broken wrist and criticised the Duke of Edinburgh for failing to apologise immediately after the crash and called for him to be prosecuted if he was found at fault.

Ms Fairweather was convicted in her absence at an earlier hearing of two counts of breaking a 30mph speed limit and two counts of failing to tell police who was driving her VW Golf at the time.

She was caught by a fixed speed camera driving her 14-year-old motor at 38mph on July 14 last year on the A1067 road at Taverham, near Norwich.

CAUGHT AGAIN

Ms Fairweather, from Heacham, Norfolk, was caught again by the same camera doing 39mph on August 29 last year.

It is believed that she failed to reply to police notices asking who was driving her car as she was unaware that they had been sent.

The letters were allegedly posted to her old address due to her not informing the DVLA that she had moved house.

She was fined £75 for each speeding offence and £150 for each offence of failing to notify police in a hearing today at King’s Lynn Magistrates’ Court.

Ms Fairweather was also banned from driving for six months, ordered to pay £85 costs and a £30 victim surcharge.

She was not required to attend court and she was not at the short hearing.

BROKEN WRIST

Her case was heard in private by a lone magistrate under the new Single Justice Procedure process, but court officials later confirmed her penalty.

Ms Fairweather was injured when Philip suddenly pulled out on the 60mph limit A149 road from a side road at Babingley on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk.

Her friend Ellie Townsend, 28, who was driving the Kia had no way of avoiding him.

Ms Townsend escaped with cuts to her knees in the crash and her nine-month-old son who was a rear seat passenger was unhurt.

Philip amazingly escaped injury when his armoured Land Rover was flipped over and spun round in the impact.

Ms Fairweather branded Philip as insensitive after he was pictured driving a new Land Rover without wearing a seatbelt, three days after the crash.
She later received a personal letter of apology from him.

He voluntarily surrendered his driving licence to police and the Crown Prosecution Service decided it would not be in the public interest to charge him.