Former deputy prime minister Lord Heseltine has been fined £5,000 by magistrates after he admitted knocking a bicycle owner off his bike.
Michael Heseltine appeared at Northampton Magistrates' Courtroom on Thursday and entered a responsible plea to a cost of careless driving.
The 83-year-old Tory grandee, driving a inexperienced Jaguar, pulled out of a lane and into the trail of the bicycle owner on the B4525 close to Thenford in Northamptonshire on June 19 final 12 months.
In courtroom, Lord Heseltine claimed the roadside verge and hedgerow alongside the junction partially obscured his view of the bicycle owner, who was travelling at round 30mph.
Lord Michael Heseltine appeared earlier than magistrates in Northampton yesterday the place he pleaded responsible to careless driving, following the incident in June final 12 months
In a file picture from 1995, Michael Heseltine is pictured behind the wheel of a Jaguar
The male bicycle owner was left with a number of accidents from the crash, together with a damaged arm, which was fractured in 4 locations, and shattered knees which later required plates and pins.
Lord Heseltine was ordered to pay a £170 sufferer surcharge and £85 prices, a magistrates' courtroom clerk confirmed. He was additionally handed 5 penalty factors.
Lord Heseltine stated in a press release after the listening to: 'I want to apologise unreservedly to the pedal bicycle owner.
'My overriding concern has at all times been his effectively being.'
The previous MP for Henley ran towards the then prime minister Margaret Thatcher in a Conservative management poll in 1990.
Though his bid for the highest job was in the end unsuccessful the competition triggered Mrs Thatcher's eventual resignation.
The 83-year-old had been driving his Jaguar alongside the B4525 in Thenford, Nothamptonshire when he collided with the bicycle owner
Lord Heseltine went on to serve in John Main's cupboard the place he was made deputy prime minister.
He stood down from his parliamentary seat on the 2001 basic election and was made a life peer later that 12 months, taking the title Baron Heseltine of Thenford.
Lord Heseltine just lately made the headlines after telling society journal Tatler how he as soon as tackled his mom's Alsatian when it began biting him.
He pulled the canine's collar tight inflicting the animal, named Kim, to go 'limp' - however later harassed he had not killed the pet.
As an alternative, he stated it had been put down due to its violent outburst.
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