Celebrity Race Across The World star banned from driving after ‘smashing into multiple cars’

Billy Monger, who starred connected the BBC bid Celebrity Race Across The World, has been banned from driving aft admitting to ‘driving without owed care’.

The racing driver, who has antecedently competed successful the F4 British Championship, had to person both of his legs amputated successful 2017 aft helium was progressive successful a collision. The adjacent year, helium was awarded the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award.

The 25-year-old – who’s a Formula 1 commentator for Channel 4 – took portion successful the inaugural personage variation of Race Across The World successful 2023 with his sister Bonny, and is presently grooming for an Ironman race.

In January, Monger was progressive successful a clang successful Surrey erstwhile helium mislaid power of his Toyota portion speeding, deed 3 parked cars and crashed into a plot wall.

The pundit pleaded blameworthy astatine Guildford Magistrates Court to driving without owed attraction and attention.

In a connection shared connected Facebook, Surrey Police said: ‘A antheral has pleaded blameworthy to driving without owed attraction and attraction aft crashing into 3 parked cars successful Limpsfield earlier this year.

‘Billy Monger, 25 (5/5/1999), of Stan Hill, Charlwood, #Horley, was driving a achromatic Toyota Supra erstwhile helium was progressive successful the collision successful Snatts Hill astir 11.55pm connected 19 January 2024.

‘Monger was driving on the 30mph roadworthy erstwhile helium collided with a Volkswagen Lupo, a Volkswagen Golf and a Citroen C, causing harm to each 3 cars. Damage was besides caused to a lamp station and a hedge and a partition successful the beforehand plot of a adjacent property.

‘He was disqualified from driving for a full of 49 days and was ordered to wage fines and costs totalling £2,694.’

Surrey Police besides shared a connection from Rick Scholey, supervisor for the Road Traffic Collision Team, which investigated the case.

His connection read: ‘Monger was not paying attraction erstwhile helium mislaid power of his car which resulted successful him colliding with 3 parked cars, causing important harm to the vehicles earlier past colliding with a hedge and partition belonging to a adjacent house.

‘Thankfully, nary 1 was successful the roadworthy astatine the clip different this could person had acold much superior consequences.’

Monger’s lawyer, Duncan Jones, told the tribunal that the mishap was ‘caused by excessive velocity and Mr Monger accepts that helium drove without owed attraction and attraction and his lapse was driving excessively accelerated astir the bend’, the Daily Mail reported.

Jones continued: ‘Mr Monger wants to marque it wide that helium does not privation to get peculiar treatment, but the interaction of a disqualification for a young antheral with his disablement is simply a applicable information for the court.’

The lawyer stressed that the TV prima has ‘no erstwhile convictions and has shown remorse by his blameworthy plea’, emphasising that helium ‘takes afloat responsibility’ for the accident.

The work claimed that Monger visited the residential spot wherever the mishap took spot to perceive the concerns of the radical who owned the vehicles that helium drove into, and that security covered the harm that was caused.

The Mail reported the connection made by Bench Chair Ann Whelan, who told Monger that ‘from this infinitesimal successful clip you are a disqualified operator and cannot drive’. If you bash truthful it is simply a superior offence you could spell to situation for’.

According to the outlet, Monger confirmed to Surrey Police that helium was the operator erstwhile helium reported the clang the adjacent morning, having been successful the car with a pistillate passenger.

Metro.co.uk has contacted Billy Monger’s typical and Guildford Magistrates Court for comment.

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