The former Manchester United footballer Nicky Butt has been banned from driving for 12 months and ordered to do 100 hours of unpaid work after breaking a motorcyclist’s leg in a road crash.
Butt, 49, who was heading home after taking his son to football training in Burnley, pulled out in front of a Honda motorbike ridden by Adam Fielding after a “momentary lapse of concentration”, Blackburn magistrates court heard.
Fielding suffered a broken left leg and other injuries and spent two weeks in hospital after the crash, which happened at about 8.10pm on 17 October 2022.
The 28-year-old had to have metal rods inserted in his leg, lost his job, suffered psychological damage and was in constant pain as a result of the crash, the court was told.
Butt told the court in a statement on Friday: “I could not be more sorry.”
Butt, of Bowdon, Greater Manchester, who admitted causing serious injury by careless driving at an earlier hearing, was also ordered to pay a £140 government surcharge and £85 costs.