Driving with teenager clinging to car was 'sociable'
CCTV operators watched in horror as Jessica Green drove her car around Ely Market Place with a teenager clinging to the bonnet. The youngster s legs were swinging as the car turned in circles around the pedestrian area, while a group of teenagers watched
CCTV operators watched in horror as Jessica Green drove her car around Ely Market Place with a teenager clinging to the bonnet.
The youngster's legs were swinging as the car turned in circles around the pedestrian area, while a group of teenagers watched the spectacle.
Green accelerated her 55-registered Vauxhall Astra and then stopped suddenly, with the person on the bonnet still clinging to the vehicle.
"I was horrified at the driver being so reckless," CCTV operator Andrew Wilmore told police.
Green had driven from Market Place, around bollards and on to the market square, Ely magistrates were told by prosecutor Matthew Bradbury.
When it stopped, several teenagers approached the vehicle, and several people got out of the car. One of the teenagers climbed on the bonnet and hung on as it drove around in circles, as five or six teenagers stood around. When the teenager got off the car, another person carrying a football got on to the vehicle.
Most Read
- 1 Inside the £165,000 luxury river boat for sale in the Fens
- 2 See inside this £1.7m country house with its own lake near Ely
- 3 Weekend closure for A142 for bridge works between Ely and Chatteris
- 4 Coach shocked as girls football idea goes from strength to strength
- 5 Princess Anne unveils new 'national treasure' Jubilee table in Ely
- 6 Village toasts Queen's Platinum Jubilee with a memorable touch
- 7 See inside this Grade II listed former pub with self-contained annexe
- 8 Villagers can be proud says school head as Ofsted gives thumbs up
- 9 MBR Acres releases image of graffiti message
- 10 7 great places to get a bottomless brunch in Cambridgeshire
Officers dispatched to the scene found Green driving in Back Hill, and she was followed to Parade Lane.
When asked why she had been driving in an anti-social manner, the 20-year-old replied: "I was being sociable, I was making everyone laugh."
She had driven around in circles because an unknown "chavvy" had instructed her to do it, she explained.
She had been driving at just five mph, and there had been no one nearby.
Five passengers had been carried in her car earlier that evening, she said, including one person in the boot.
Green, of Kingfisher Drive, Soham, failed to attend Ely courthouse, and was convicted of careless driving in her absence.
Magistrates were told she was "a disqualification waiting to happen," and sentencing was adjourned until April 5.
