A WOMAN who left her former partner unconscious in a car she crashed has been fined £360 and banned from the road for nine months.

Sophie Williams, 19, had never got behind a wheel before when she gave her boyfriend Liam Emmanuel a lift after the pair had rowed. She crashed the car into a parked vehicle and ran off in “sheer panic and confusion”.

At North East Wales Magistrates’ Court Deputy District Judge Anita Price told Williams that she had acted foolishly and there “could have been catastrophic consequences”.

Williams, of Pendwll Road, Moss, Wrexham admitted failing to report a road accident, failing to stop after a road accident, driving without due care and attention as well as driving without insurance and a licence.

Prosecutor Justin Espie said Williams initially claimed her boyfriend, Liam Emmanuel, was driving his Vauxhall Corsa when it was involved in a “high energy impact” with a parked Vauxhall Astra on Dodds Lane in Gwersyllt in the early hours of March 10.

The owner of the car was woken by a large bang to find the Corsa “embedded” in her vehicle.

Mr Emmanuel was unconscious in the passenger seat of the Corsa, but Williams claimed she had dragged him across from the driving seat.

“She then fled the scene and abandoned her unconscious passenger,” said the prosecutor.

A probation report revealed Williams and her boyfriend had got into an argument and she said he became “angry and intimidating”. When she realised he was going to drive she said she would take the wheel as she feared he might have a crash as he had been drinking.

The report stated she had never driven before.

Christie Ankers-Phillips, defending, said: “She has been very foolish but I don’t think this is a lady who is going to trouble the courts again. She is only 19 and she was very, very confused. She did stop and talk to the owners of the car but in sheer panic she must have walked home – it was a bit of a blur.”

Williams must complete 10 rehabilitation activity days as part of her 12-month community order. As well as her fine she will have to pay combined costs and victim surcharge of £170.