Driver knocks over worker after ignoring closure

Name: Derbyshire: Driver knocks over worker after ignoring closure
Uploaded: 2025-02-05T15:42:00.855Z
Duration: 43 s
Description: Derbyshire Police said his actions were "not only unacceptable but criminal".

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A driver who ignored a road closure before reversing into a worker and driving off has been given a suspended sentence.

John Leonard Muckle drove past closure signs while potholes were being fixed in Locko Lane in Hardstoft, Derbyshire, on 13 May 2024.

After failing to pass a council truck on one side of the road, Muckle, of Broom Avenue in Pilsley, Chesterfield, tried to go around the other side and in doing so, knocked a worker into the hedgerow.

On 22 January, Muckle was sentenced to eight months in prison, suspended for 12 months, and banned from driving for a year.

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