A man who was handed a one-year driving ban after crashing his car into a bridge has been refused a Glasgow private hire licence.

Police Scotland objected to Mark Lyon’s licence bid due to his conviction for driving without due care and attention.

An officer told licensing chiefs that Mr Lyon — who didn’t declare the conviction on his application form — had been fined £750 and disqualified for 12 months after the 2018 incident.

The committee heard the applicant, who didn’t attend the hearing, failed to “negotiate a left hand bend and thereafter collided with a bridge parapet, rebounding and subsequently colliding with an opposing vehicle and an agricultural fence”.

Police Scotland added the driver had caused “serious injury to himself” as well as “excessive damage to his own vehicle, the bridge and the agricultural fence”.

The officer said the other vehicle had also been damaged. The force believed the driver is not a fit and proper person to hold a licence.

Mr Lyon, who wanted a three year private hire car driver’s licence, had been sentenced at Dumfries Sheriff Court in 2019. The incident took place in Langholm.