A senior manager with Tayside Contracts seriously injured a colleague when he ran him down with his car.
Fraser Hetherington needed surgery on his leg after he was hit by 66-year-old Robert Ritchie last December.
The incident happened in the Tayside Contracts car park on Soutar Street, Dundee.
Dundee Sheriff Court heard Ritchie, a transport manager for the firm, was driving into the narrow car park at about 7.45am on the day in question.
Mr Hetherington was walking toward the car park entrance and into the central line. Ritchie collided with him as he went to make the turn.
Depute fiscal Laura Bruce said: “The accused was turning into the junction and did not see him and collided with him on the front offside of his vehicle, knocking him to the ground.
“He stopped his vehicle immediately and left the car and contacted the emergency services.”
The court heard Mr Hetherington suffered minor facial injuries, a fracture on his left wrist and a fracture to his left femur.
Ritchie, of Kinross, pleaded guilty to driving carelessly and colliding with Mr Hetherington, causing him serious injury, on December 13.
Solicitor advocate Kris Gilmartin said there was no suggestion his client had been driving at excessive speed and that the incident was something that “will live with him for some time”.
He said Mr Hetherington was in Ritchie’s blind spot and he only saw him when contact was made.
Sheriff Jillian Martin-Brown fined Ritchie £200 and put three penalty points on his licence.
