THIS is the moment a teacher knocked a moped driver off his bike on a busy dual carriageway.
Demi Lewis was driving on the A55 in December 2024 on her way to her first lesson when she hit Peter Riley off his bike.
Despite wearing his hi-vis jacket, Lewis hit the rider and caused him to have bleeding on his brain and three broken ribs.
Video footage from Lewis’s dash cam shows her entering a dual carriageway in Broughton, Wales, from a slip road at 7am that morning.
As she drives onto the A55, Riley’s moped and his hi-vis jacket can be seen shining in the car’s headlights.
Driving straight into the bike, Riley is knocked off his moped and the car continues to career down the road and into the carriageway’s grass verge.
The car then hits a road sign before finally coming to a stop.
Riley suffered bleeding on both sides of his brain, three broken ribs, a broken nose and a fracture to the bottom of his spine.
Appearing at Mold Crown Court in Mold, Wales, Lewis was handed a 16-week suspended sentence and a 12-month driving ban in August.
But she was successfully able to appeal the sentence and was handed instead a £287 fine.
The decision made by Judge Simon Mills to lighten the sentence was due to her “previous exemplary character”.
The prosecutor Joseph Lee told the court that Riley “had a hi-vis jacket which was illuminated by Ms Lewis’s car”.
Barrister Darren Finnegan, who was defending Lewis, said that the moped driver was “travelling significantly slower than the ambient traffic,” and that Lewis “inadvertently, inexplicably did not see him”.
In response, Lee said: “[Riley] may have been travelling slower but that is something she should have taken into account when joining.
“It’s her duty to make way for him, not the other way around.”
Judge Mills, while granting the appeal, said: “The court makes it absolutely clear that if it accepts Mr Riley did suffer a very serious injury; nobody must suggest this court found anything else.
“This is the sort of offence that an ordinary, decent, honest citizen – as this appellant is – can find themselves facing justice for.”
