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A dangerous driver has admitted causing serious injury to a cyclist after ploughing into him on a pavement.

Kyle Larmouth mounted the path and drove into Wesley McKenna as he rode a bike in North Shields, a court heard.

Mr McKenna suffered multiple facial fractures, a broken ankle and lost some teeth in the collision.

Now Larmouth has pleaded guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving on Norham Road, North Shields, last September.

Full details of what happened were not revealed as the case was adjourned for sentence until next month.

Judge Paul Sloan QC, at Newcastle Crown Court, told Larmouth: “The fact I’m adjourning sentence is not an indication of sentence.

“Sentence will be a matter for the judge who hears your case in due course.”

The court heard the victim has no memory of what happened but witnesses said all four wheels of Larmouth’s Nissan Navara pick-up mounted the pavement.

Tony Hawks, defending, said: “He doesn’t deny he deliberately drove on the pavement and continued driving.

“He is a young man of good character and in work.”

Larmouth, 22, of Twickenham Court, Blyth, was released on conditional bail and will be sentenced on May 9.

As reported in the Chronicle at the time, eye-witnesses to the crash said they saw a man, who was semi-conscious and bleeding, lying on the ground next to a bike.

They ran to the scene to help the cyclist and one neighbour, who did not want to be named, said she brought him a blanket and gave the postcode of the area to another person who had called emergency services.

The road was closed for more than four hours from the Coast Road towards New York before being re-opened at 8.30pm.

The Great North Air Ambulance also landed in a field near the scene but it was deemed better for Mr McKenna to be taken to hospital by the land ambulance and the on-flight doctor travelled with the him to the RVI.