A TAXI driver ran over a mum who collapsed on the road after she fell ill.
John Paul Borland, 42, struck Patricia McBride, then 52, in Glasgow's Toryglen on the night of March 6, 2022.
Miss McBride was placed in a medically induced coma for six days as her condition was deemed "life-threatening."
The stricken victim suffered a string of injuries including 30 rib fractures, a collapsed lung and a spinal fracture.
Borland claimed that he did not see Miss McBride lying on the road as he was distracted by a man waving at him.
Borland was found guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court of careless driving having initially stood trial for dangerous driving.
The court heard that Miss McBride had been at her daughter's home and left due to "feeling unwell."
A joint minute of agreed evidence stated: "She was due to return home when she crossed Prospecthill Road.
"Miss McBride collapsed and became unconscious, resulting in her laying across the road.
"She has no recollection of the collision and only recalls briefly wakening up at the roadside and thereafter six days later in hospital."
Miss McBride was taken to hospital where her condition was being treated as "life-threatening."
She was placed in a medically induced coma in the intensive care unit for six days.
Miss McBride was discharged from hospital on March 31, 2022.
She sustained 30 separate rib fractures, a pelvic fracture, a collapsed lung, blood in the lungs and a spinous process fracture.
Miss McBride also suffered a fractured collarbone, right clavicle, left wrist and right arm as well as wounds to her liver, kidney and spleen.
The joint minute says: "Miss McBride will be affected physically for the rest of her life and continues to suffer mobility issues and must attend hospital every two or three months for additional ongoing treatment for her injuries."
The now former private licenced taxi driver Borland told the court in his evidence that he was starting his shift in the south side of the city on the night of the incident.
He stated that when he was driving, he saw a man waving at him in the distance from the side of the road.
Borland said: "As I got closer, I saw him waving and as I approached I saw him and that's when I hit the woman on the road."
Linzi McQuade, defending, asked her client why he thought that the man was waving at him.
Borland said: "I had no idea, I thought maybe it was someone that knew me or recognised my car.
"Immediately after the impact, I put the handbrake on and the first thing I did was run out of the car and a witness said that there was nothing I could have done then I asked for an ambulance to be called."
Miss McQuade asked before the "distraction" of the man waving if he saw the person on the road.
Borland replied: "I can't say I saw the pedestrian on the road."
Prosecutor Ross Canning asked Borland in cross-examination if he was blaming the waving man for the incident and he replied: "I'm not blaming anyone."
It was revealed that Borland, of the city's Cathcart, has two previous road traffic convictions.
Sentencing was deferred pending background reports until next month by Sheriff Paul Reid who continued Borland's bail in the meantime.
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