A Glasgow private hire driver has been found guilty of careless driving after running over a woman who had collapsed on the road.
John Paul Borland, 42, was convicted at Glasgow Sheriff Court having initially stood trial for dangerous driving.
He struck Patricia McBride, then 52, in Toryglen on the night of March 6, 2022.
The court heard that Ms. McBride had been feeling unwell and collapsed while crossing Prospecthill Road resulting in her laying across the road.
She was taken to hospital where her condition was treated as "life threatening." She was placed in a medically induced coma within the intensive care unit for six days.
She sustained 30 separate rib fractures, a pelvic fracture, a collapsed lung, blood in lungs and a spinous process fracture. She was discharged from hospital on March 31 2022.
Miss McBride also suffered a fractured collarbone, right clavicle, left wrist and right arm as well as wounds to her liver, kidney and spleen.
The now former private hire driver, Borland, told the court that he was starting his shift in the south side of the city on the night of the incident. He stated that when he was driving, he saw a man waving at him in the distance from the side of the road.
Borland said: "As I got closer, I saw him waving and as I approached, I saw him and that's when I hit the woman on the road.
"Immediately after the impact, I put the handbrake on and the first thing I did was run out of the car and a witness said that there was nothing I could have done then I asked for an ambulance to be called."
The prosecutor asked Borland in cross examination if he was blaming the waving man for the incident and he replied: "I'm not blaming anyone."
It was revealed that Borland, of the city's Cathcart, has two previous road traffic convictions.
Sheriff Paul Reid deferred sentence to allow for background reports and continued Borland's bail.
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