SNS GroupA driver left eight teenage boys “scattered across a car park” following an alleged hit and run, a court heard.
Steven Gilmour is said to have collided with the youngsters in Glasgow’s Provanmill having earlier dropped off Super Noodles at his home.
Six of the boys were described as needing hospital treatment following the incident on August 22, 2022.
Gilmour – a carer – has gone on trial charged with causing injury by dangerous driving.
The 36-year-old is said to have been behind the wheel of a silver Vauxhall Corsa and drove at excessive speeds for the road conditions.
It is claimed he lost control of the vehicle, mounted a pavement and went in to a car park where the teenagers had been standing.
Gilmour, of the city’s Barlanark, denies the charge at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
The trial heard from Gilmour’s partner, who stated that she spoke to him on the phone earlier that day.
Fiscal Danielle Docherty asked if she could remember anything about his working day.
She replied: “I asked him to pick up Super Noodles and drop them off after his next shift.
Ms Docherty asked: “Did he come home with them?”
The witness said: “He finished his shift and before he started his next one he brought Super Noodles for our child then went to work.”
Ms Docherty later asked if Gilmour had went “out of his way” or if he had been delayed by the request, which the woman refuted.
However, the fiscal referred to the woman’s police statement in which she told an officer that her partner had been “running late.”
The woman stated that the next contact with Gilmour was when he called her in a “panic” to say that he had been in an “accident” and “was not sure if he had hurt anyone.”
A witness told the court that he heard a “loud bang” outside his home around 5.20pm that day.
The Glasgow City council gardener said he looked out of his window and “saw young lads scattered all over the car park.”
The man stated that he rushed to the community centre in his bare feet to attend to the boys.
He said: “They were all in different positions – one was under a car, one or two of them were unconscious.”
When asked about the teenager under the vehicle, the man replied: “It was the front of the car on the passenger side…he was obviously in shock with the motor on top of him.”
The man stated that he and Gilmour – who he identified in the dock – as well as one of the uninjured youths lifted the vehicle from the boy.
The witness said Gilmour was also “in shock” and claimed that he did not know what had happened.
He added: “Mr Gilmour then left the scene of the crime…he ran towards the USave shop on Royston Road.”
Ms Docherty asked: “What did you do?”
The witness replied: “I then left the boys, ran upstairs to put trainers on and then I went to the shop to get Mr Gilmour.”
Ms Docherty said: “What was he doing?”
The witness replied: “He was trying to hide in there.”
The witness stated that he took Gilmour by the arm and handed him to the police officers who had arrived.
The man claimed that he saw six of the eight boys be taken away by ambulances.
Calum Weir, defending, asked the man if the atmosphere after the crash was hostile towards Mr Gilmour and he replied: “Yes.”
Mr Weir followed up: “It’s not unreasonable for a person to try and remove himself from that?”. The witness again agreed.
The summary trial, before Sheriff Patricia Pryce and no jury, continues in August.
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