Leah Keyworth arriving at the court (Picture: MEN)

A nurse who hit a motorcyclist with her car after he told her not to use her phone while driving was spared jail today.

Leah Keyworth was driving near her home in Swindon with her young daughter in the back seat when a motorcyclist verbally remonstrated with her for using her phone behind the wheel.

The court heard how Ms Keyworth, 42, then drove her car into the back of the motorcycle, before pushing and slapping the rider and finally throwing his £300 helmet into the road.

Both the helmet and the motorbike were written off during the incident, which Ms Keyworth drove away from without swapping details with the man she hit.




Despite pleading guilty to driving without due care and attention, assault, criminal damage and failing to stop after an accident and failing to report an accident, she managed to avoid jail at the hearing in Manchester and Salford Magistrates’ Court, and was given a 12 week prison sentence, suspended for one year.

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She was also ordered to pay £1,290 in fines and compensation to the victim.

Subhanur Chowdhury, prosecuting, said the biker remonstrated with Ms Keyworth before riding off and stopped at a crossing to let a pedestrian cross.

He said the biker ‘approached a pedestrian crossing and stopped. [Ms Keyworth] was unable to and collided with him.

‘He stepped off his bike and she got out of the car. She pushed him in the chest and then he took off his helmet and placed it on his seat. She then slapped him in the face and knocked his helmet off into the road, before driving away,’ he added.

However Robert Travis, who was defending Ms Keyworth, said the man on the motorbike ‘must have said something significant for her to respond in this way’.

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