Corby van driver avoids jail after hitting motorcyclist near Ock N Dough roundabout
A Corby driver has been sentenced after a motorcylist suffered serious injuries in a two-vehicle smash.
James Hendry, 60, was arrested following the incident that happened in Northen Way, Wellingborough, during the morning of May 14 last year.
Police said that a man in his 60s riding a red BMW motorcycle had been hit by the driver of a white Peugeot Expert van near the Ock N Dough roundabout and had suffered potentially life-threatening injuries.
The rider was taken to University Hospital Coventry to be treated.
Hendry, of Waverley Avenue, Corby, was charged with causing serious injury by careless driving and was before Northampton Magistrates Court at the end of January to be sentenced.
He was given 18 weeks in prison suspended for 18 months. He was also disqualified from driving for 12 months and ordered to complete 20 rehabilitation activity days. He will also have to pay costs of £85 and a £154 victim surcharge.