A drink-driver has admitted seriously injuring his neighbour when he lost control of his car at a roundabout.
Passenger Laura Wilson was left with a dislocated and fractured hip as well as a broken arm after Gregg McQueen drove dangerously and ploughed his car into the side of a taxi.
The pair had been out socialising on October 23 last year and into the early hours of the following day when they decided to move on to another pub.
En route, at around 1.15am, McQueen hit speeds of up to 40mph while he was trying to negotiate the roundabout in Westhill’s Old Skene Road and failed to give way to the oncoming taxi.
The two vehicles crashed leaving, Miss Wilson seriously injured and the cars badly damaged.
Yesterday the 32-year-old removals man appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court and admitted driving his black Volkswagen Golf dangerously while more than twice the drink-drive limit.
Court papers revealed McQueen had 54 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 22mcg.
Fiscal depute Anne MacDonald said that when interviewed by police Miss Wilson said she saw the accused drinking two vodkas shortly before they got into his car.
She said: “Miss Wilson was a passenger in the accused’s vehicle. She suffered a fracture in her right hip socket joint, a dislocated hip and a fractured arm.
“She put a speed of about 40mph at the time just before impact on the roundabout. She said they were just having a general chat in the car before the accident.
“She was in hospital, in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary for three weeks before she was transferred to Woodend Hospital where she spent a further week.”
Representing McQueen, who previously served a prison sentence for unrelated matters, solicitor Lynn Bentley asked Sheriff Graeme Napier to obtain background reports before sentencing her client.
Sheriff Napier agreed and deferred sentence on McQueen, of Burnbrae Crescent, Aberdeen, until next month.
He was disqualified from driving in the meantime.
