A GRANDMOTHER was seriously hurt when a teenager lost control of his vehicle on a sharp bend and crashed into her as she made her way to work.

Owen Robert Lythe, 19, admitted a careless driving charge following a collision on the B5129 at Saltney Ferry last November.

Lythe, of Belmont Drive in Saltney Ferry, was fined £219 with £85 costs together with a £30 surcharge.

Nine penalty points were placed on his driving licence which, Flintshire Magistrates Court at Mold heard, would mean that as a new driver the DVLA would revert him to learner status.

Lythe apologised for the injuries the other driver had suffered.

Magistrates said it was a dangerous road, Lythe was inexperienced and the Mold court accepted he had meant no harm to the other driver.

Prosecutor Brian Robinson said Lythe was making his way to work at Airbus in his silver Corsa.

The complainant, Susan Edwards, was driving in the opposite direction from her home in Connah’s Quay to her workplace at Saltney Ferry, in her silver Polo.

It was a road that both used regularly.

Lythe had overtaken vehicles on a straight piece of road but then on a sharp bend near Cop House Farm he lost control and veered to the wrong side of the road, causing a head-on crash.

Mrs Edwards had to be cut from the wreckage by the fire service and was taken to hospital which a fractured sternum, a fractured arm and a fractured ankle.

She had undergone surgery the following day when a plate and pins had been used to fix her arm.

Her injuries meant she could not use a crutch and her right foot had been placed in an orthopaedic brace.

She had lost time in work, felt helpless and that she had lost her independence, and her bed had to be moved downstairs, she said in a victim impact statement read by Mr Robinson to the court.