Driving ban for actor after hit-and-run
Actor Simon MacCorkindale, who plays Harry Harper in the BBC hospital drama Casualty, has been banned from driving for two months and ordered to pay £5,000 after pleading guilty to leaving the scene of an accident in which a cyclist was left with head injuries. At Taunton Deane Magistrates Court last week, Simon, 53, told how he collided with cyclist John Lilley after sneezing while at the wheel of his car and losing control as he drove from his home in Minehead, Somerset to the Casualty studios in Bristol. Simon, who is married to actress Susan George, drove off but gave himself up at a local police station 30 minutes later. His lawyer told the court the actor was “terribly ashamed”