A TRUCKER'S bloodymindedness in refusing to let a motorcyclist overtake on a Hampshire road led to a crash, with the rider going over the handlebars of his machine, a court heard.
William Payne, 31, was said to have moved out and performed a handbrake turn because the biker would have been exceeding the 30mph limit with wild animals about in the New Forest.
Prosecutor Louise Gray told Southampton Crown Court there was contact between the pair, and the biker sustained leg injuries in the crash.
Payne, of Emery Down, Lyndhurst, admitted dangerous driving and having no insurance. He received 12 months' supervision, a 100-hour unpaid work order and a 12-month disqualification with a direction that he must pass an extended re-test.
Defending, Sarah Jones said: "It was a moment of bloodymindedness which looking back he realises was dangerous."
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