Doctor ordered to court after knocking down OAP
Sheriff summons medic to appear for sentencing
A high-flying Stirling doctor has been ordered to appear in court after reversing her car into a pensioner, breaking her hip.
Dr Anna Lamont, 47, was backing out of her drive in Clarendon Place, King’s Park , to go to work, when the accident happened.
Stirling Sheriff Court was told on Friday that Anne Marquetty, 84, was standing on the pavement when Lamont, the associate medical director of NHS 24 in Scotland, backed her Toyota Urban Cruiser into her after failing to notice the elderly lady.
Prosecutor Craig Wainwright said Lamont, who had been watching out in her wing mirrors for a low wall, “heard a thud” and immediately stopped and got out.
Lamont told police she saw “a lady lying on her side” at the rear of her car and realised she had hit her.
She said: “I’m a doctor, and I saw that her leg was externally rotated, which normally means a broken hip.”
She called an ambulance and kept Mrs Marquetty warm with blankets from her house while waiting for paramedics to arrive.
Mrs Marquetty was taken to the Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert, where she underwent an emergency operation. Lamont added to police: “I’m really sorry... I know that sounds inadequate.”
She said she now realised her car had “a blind spot”.
Lamont pleaded guilty by letter to driving carelessly by reversing without keeping a proper lookout, and thereby colliding with Mrs Marquetty to her severe injury. The incident happened on March 20. Sheriff Derek Reekie deferred sentence until August 22, ordering Lamont to appear before him personally.