Warrick Brian Sutton avoids jail after suffering serious injuries in accident
A MOTORCYCLIST with a terrible traffic history has avoided jail because he suffered life-threatening injuries in a later accident.
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A MOTORCYCLIST with a terrible traffic history has avoided jail because he suffered life-threatening injuries in a later accident.
Last year the maniacal motorist was involved in a police pursuit, racing at nearly double the speed limit down a suburban Frankston South street.
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But because he was later badly injured as a pedestrian and has to deal with those lifelong injuries, he has managed to avoid jail.
Warrick Brian Sutton pleaded guilty to a series of serious driving charges at Frankston Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
The court heard he was seen by police on a black motorbike with no plates on Nepean Highway in Frankston South on April 24 last year.
As officers pulled up behind him in a servo, he sped away, accelerating down Yamala Drive.
He reached speeds of 110km/h in a 60km/h zone, raced erratically and swerved through traffic and sped through seven intersections without slowing down.
As he finally slowed, police pulled up alongside him, with an officer trying to stop him with his arm.
Sutton then fell off his bike and into the side of the police car, and he was arrested.
Police discovered his licence had expired in 2013, and the bike had never been registered.
The court heard he has multiple drink-driving convictions and several suspended or unlicensed driving priors dating back more than 20 years.
His defence lawyer said Sutton and his partner were walking across the road on November 28 last year when they were hit by a car, leaving them with life-threatening injuries.
He said the accident had “brought home” to Sutton what poor driving behaviour leads to.
He now has post-traumatic stress disorder and can’t work again.
Magistrate Ian McGrane said it was only the serious ramifications of that accident that saved Sutton’s liberty.
“Ordinarily I would be talking imprisonment, but taking into account the delay and as a result of the injuries as a pedestrian, I won’t jail him,” Mr McGrane said.
Sutton was placed on a 16-month community corrections order, must do 120 hours of light-duty unpaid work and complete a road trauma course.
He was also disqualified from driving for two years and must pay a $1500 surety to the court.
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