MP fined for running over major on bicycle

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Simon Burns, a Tory whip and MP for West Chelmsford, was leaving the Houses of Parliament in his Land Rover when he collided with Major Stuart Lane last April.

Major Lane was sent tumbling over his handlebars, smashing his head on the front of the 56-year-old's 4x4 and breaking two of his vertebrae. Westminster magistrates' court heard yesterday that Burns, a former shadow health minister, pulled out with insufficient care. The Oxford-educated MP, who is divorced and has a son and a daughter, pleaded guilty and, as well as the fine, had to pay £200 court costs and got four penalty points

Judge Timothy Workman said: "[Burns] should not have moved forward at the time the view was obscured."