Driver fined after roundabout crash left motorcyclist with a fractured pelvis

Chesterfield magistrates’ court heard on Wednesday, June 20, how Ricky Megyesi, 37, of Sudhall Close, Newbold, Chesterfield, had been driving onto the notoriously difficult Whittington Moor roundabout when he collided with a motorcyclist.

Prosecuting solicitor Becky Allsop said: “This incident occurred just after 10pm, on March 24, on Whittington Moor roundabout, where the cycle store is.

“The motorcyclist was negotiating the roundabout and was riding a motorbike out of the centre lane of the roundabout with a right indicator passed the A61 junction and he indicated left to leave on Whittington Moor and the road was clear.

“But a Citroen came out of the A61 and collided with his left hand side.”

Mrs Allsop said that a witness had seen Megyesi’s vehicle and stated his red car was to blame because he had been driving too fast to the roundabout from Tesco and he had not made the necessary checks going onto the roundabout.

Megyesi told police at the time he was a provisional licence holder and he was being supervised by his girlfriend with L plates on the vehicle.

He added that he was approaching the Whittington Moor roundabout and after the collision he said he was flabbergasted because he is a biker and he was gutted to have hit a bike and accepted he should have braked.

The court heard how Megyesi expressed genuine remorse to the police and added that he had not seen the motorcyclist who suffered a f