Drink driver hit boy (8) then left crash scene

By The Newsroom
Published 27th Jan 2017, 11:06 BST
Updated 27th Jan 2017, 11:20 BST
Teenage driver was sentenced at Hamilton Sheriff Court.Teenage driver was sentenced at Hamilton Sheriff Court.
Teenage driver was sentenced at Hamilton Sheriff Court.
A drink driver who knocked down an eight-year-old boy then drove off has been banned from the roads for two years.

Mark Cardwell (18) was also fined £750 and ordered to pay the young victim £200 compensation.

Cardwell, of Old Edinburgh Road, Birkenshaw, appeared at Hamilton Sheriff Court and admitted being more than three times the drink driving limit near his home on August 21 last year.

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