A YOUNG woman looking for her mobile phone while driving caused a crash on a country road.

Hayley Rebecca Williams, 21, went around a bend and hit the back of a car which had stopped to let a bus pass.

Flintshire Magistrates Court heard how that the car was then shunted into the bus.

To make matters worse Williams, of Corwen Road, Pontybodkin, should not have been behind the wheel.

She was a disqualified driver who had taken her brother’s car without consent.

Williams received a 140 day prison sentence suspended for 18 months and a 100 day curfew.

She was banned from driving for a year and ordered to pay £85 costs and a surcharge.

Rhian Edwards, prosecuting, told the Mold court that at about 1.50pm on August 10 a bus was driving from Mold to Leeswood and on The White Gates road a car came in the opposite direction around a left hand band.

The road was narrow and the car stopped to allow the bus through.

But a second vehicle driven by Williams came around the bend and struck the rear of the car.

That car was shunted forward into the front of the bus.

Williams had left her details at the scene and left before the police arrived.

CCTV from the bus showed the green Corsa registered to her brother coming around the bend. It confirmed she was driving.

Police found the damaged car at her grandmother’s home next to her home and when arrested six days later she told how she was going to Mold on the back roads.

She caused the collision and was injured herself.

Just before the bend she explained that her mobile phone was ringing. She was looking around for it and not concentrating on the road ahead.

The defendant had only passed her driving test earlier this year and had been able to amass 14 penalty points.

Andy Holliday, defending, said his client deserved credit for her guilty plea. Any prison sentence, should be suspended, he said.

The court heard she had mental health issues and had been self medicating on drugs, although she was no longer doing that.

She had been diagnosed with ADHD, depression and anxiety.

Probation officer Andew Connah said she was a little naive and had not realised the seriousness of driving while disqualified.

Williams admitted aggravated vehicle taking, driving while disqualified, careless driving and no insurance.