A COURT has banned a 95-year-old woman from driving for a year after she caused serious injury to another woman with her car.

Doreen Topliff, of Cannington, pleaded guilty to driving her Ford Fiesta car without due care and attention when she appeared in Taunton Deane Magistrate Court on Monday, July 13.

Prosecuting solicitor Giles Tippett said the incident happened outside the Sainsbury’s supermarket in The Leggar, Bridgwater, on July 31 last year.

District judge Angela Brereton said she had taken Topliff’s guilty plea into account and disqualified her from driving for 12 months.

Topliff, who was represented by solicitor Sally Donaldson, was also fined £675 by Judge Brereton and ordered to pay £85 prosecution costs and a victim fund surcharge of £270.