AN UNLICENSED and uninsured driver will be sentenced next month after driving without due care and attention and failing to stop in a Shropshire lane.

Spencer Cornes entered guilty pleas to one count of driving without due care and attention, one of driving without a licence, one of driving without insurance, and one of failing to stop after a road accident when he appeared before magistrates in Worcester in April.

The court heard from the prosecutor that the 19-year-old had driven a Renault Clio without due care and attention on a country lane between Albury and Broome, Craven Arms, on October 21.

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He had been involved in an accident in which another car was damaged in that road, the court heard, but had failed to stop.

Cornes had been driving without a licence authorising him to drive a vehicle of that class and without a valid third party insurance policy in place, the court heard.

The case was adjourned for a pre-sentencing report to be carried out by the probation service.

Cornes, of Coronation Road, Craven Arms, will appear before magistrates in Telford for sentencing on May 3.