By Press Association 2021
Jack Grealish
England footballer Jack Grealish has been banned from driving for nine months and fined a total of £82,499 after crashing his high-powered £80,000 Range Rover during March’s Covid-19 lockdown.
The 25-year-old Aston Villa captain was sentenced at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, after previously pleading guilty to two charges, including one linked to the incident in which his 4×4 hit two parked vehicles in Dickens Heath, Solihull, West Midlands.
A judge was told that a witness said Grealish smelled of “intoxicating liquor” and was slurring his words immediately after the crash on March 29.
The Premier League star, of Barnt Green, Worcestershire, was involved in the incident less than 24 hours after issuing a Twitter video message urging people to stay at home to save lives and protect the NHS.
England’s Grealish gets nine-month driving ban after slippers lockdown crash
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15 December 2020, 12:54 pm
England footballer Jack Grealish has been banned from driving for nine months and fined £82,499 after crashing his high-powered Range Rover during March’s Covid-19 lockdown, while wearing mis-matched slippers.
The 25-year-old Aston Villa captain was sentenced at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, after previously pleading guilty to two charges of careless driving, including one linked to the incident in which his 4×4 hit two parked vehicles in Mereways, Dickens Heath, Solihull.
CCTV footage of the lockdown incident was played to court showing what prosecutors said was the £80,000 4×4 being “reversed at speed” and crashing into a Citroen van, then “swerving” across the road and smashing into a Mercedes car, in a “side-swipe” collision.
Aston Villa star Jack Grealish mounts the kerb and crashes £90k Range Rover three times in shocking CCTV footage
The captain has been hit with a £82,000 fine and handed a nine-month driving ban.
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By Press Association 2021
Jack Grealish court case
England footballer Jack Grealish has been banned from driving for nine months and fined £82,499 after crashing his high-powered Range Rover during March’s Covid-19 lockdown, while wearing mis-matched slippers.
The 25-year-old Aston Villa captain was sentenced at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, after previously pleading guilty to two charges of careless driving, including one linked to the incident in which his 4×4 hit two parked vehicles in Mereways, Dickens Heath, Solihull.
CCTV footage of the lockdown incident was played to court showing what prosecutors said was the £80,000 4×4 being “reversed at speed” and crashing into a Citroen van, then “swerving” across the road and smashing into a Mercedes car, in a “side-swipe” collision.
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media captionCCTV footage shows Jack Grealish driving offences
England footballer Jack Grealish has been banned from driving and fined more than £80,000 for two motoring offences.
The offences relate to a crash in Dickens Heath, near Solihull, on 29 March, and a second incident near Villa s training ground on 18 October.
Prior to the convictions, Grealish already had six points on his licence for a speeding offence in 2018.
He has been banned from driving for nine months.
Grealish arrived at court on foot while another man driving his car temporarily distracted the media s attention before emerging to hand out Cadbury s Milk Tray chocolate.