A law student found guilty of dangerous driving was fined £650 and banned from driving for one year yesterday.
Christopher Kennedy, 28, of Airds House, Main Street, Connel, went on trial at Oban Sheriff Court.
He was convicted of driving his Audi A7 dangerously by overtaking a line of three cars on the approach to a left hand bend.
The piece of driving took place on the A819 Inveraray to Dalmally road, near Cladich, on August 14 last year.
The court heard that Kennedy, who studies in Glasgow, is also self-employed as a communications director.
Giving evidence, Doreen MacLeod, 78, who was driving the first car in front of Kennedy, said: “There were two cars in front of me, we were travelling at an appropriate speed with an acceptable distance between us.
“There was a noise behind me like an aeroplane taking off, a car flashed past me. It was a short straight where you would think once, twice, maybe three times before overtaking one car.
“I have been driving for 60 years and it is the worst case of inappropriate overtaking I have ever been witness to. I got a real fright.”
Kennedy, who denied the charge, said: “I saw an opportunity to overtake them safely. As the straight appeared in front of me I overtook as there was nothing coming in the opposite direction. There was enough distance for me to pull back in before the corner.”
He said he was travelling at 60mph while the three cars were doing around 35mph.
Finding Kennedy guilty, Sheriff Douglas Small said: “I did not believe the accused when he said the manoeuvre had been completed prior to the bend.”
