A former BBC star has been fined £600 - but will keep her driving licence - after leaving the scene of a car crash that left a driver injured in a ditch.
Karen Patterson, 54, was one of the most famous faces in Northern Ireland having spent 20 years at the Beeb including a decade as a presenter on Good Morning Ulster.
But she left the corporation five years ago to become a dairy farmer.
On March 16 last year, the Range Rover being driven by the former journalist collided with a Mazda MX5 sports car on the Newtownards Road in Comber - a town on the northern edge of Strangford Lough.
The Mazda driver told police that as he was overtaking Ms Patterson's 4x4, she moved across and hit him, sending him off the road.
