Motorcyclist ‘won’t ride again’ after A-road crash

A driver who crashed his car into a motorcyclist on the A3052 has pleaded guilty to driving in a public place without due care. Dennis Trigg, 71, was travelling from Chard in June 2025. He was at the front of a queue of cars waiting to turn right.

The victim, Andrew Harris, was on his way to Lyme Regis and had overtaken a van as he approached. Trigg, of Henson Park, Chard, said he did not see the bike and collided with it. Harris was knocked off the bike and suffered a broken collarbone, multiple tears to the ligaments in his knee and a wound to his leg requiring stitches.

The victim was treated by paramedics at the scene. He returned to work as a mechanic six weeks after the incident but reported that he still suffers nerve pain and has become anxious when driving or as a passenger, and doubts he will ever ride a motorbike again. District Judge Smith said: "This charge is woefully inadequate to reflect the injuries caused.

Causing serious injury by driving is a charge that may well be procured if this was reviewed." The defendant, a retired man, had a clean licence prior to this and used to drive a motorbike himself. Trigg, representing himself, said: "I just can't make out how it happened, I really can't. "I've gone over it again and again in my head...

I thought I was being careful that day, I just didn't see no motorbike.

If I did, I would have stopped."

The defendant was disqualified from driving for 42 days and ordered to pay a fine of GBP150 and a surcharge of GBP60.