Driver smashed into lamppost after falling asleep at the wheel

Fotheringham told police he fell asleep behind the wheel <i>(Image: Newsquest)</i>
Fotheringham told police he fell asleep behind the wheel (Image: Newsquest)
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A 22-year-old driver smashed into a lamp-post after falling asleep at the wheel.

The culprit was Logan Fotheringham, of Provost Mill Way, Kelty, who appeared for sentencing at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.

He admitted that on October 8 last year at Queensferry Road, Dunfermline, he drove a car dangerously by falling asleep and colliding with a lamp-post.

He was also driving without insurance.

Depute fiscal Brogan Moffat said that at 3.45am police received calls from members of the public about a car colliding with a lamp-post.

When police arrived, they found Fotheringham and he told them he had fallen asleep.

Defence solicitor Alexander Flett said: “It was a friend’s car and they had decided to go to a garage five minutes away to buy something to eat.

“It was a stupid mistake on his part.”

Sheriff Krista Johnston fined Fotheringham £480. He was also banned from driving for a year and will have to re-sit his test.

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