A man who threw a large traffic cone from a car in Shrewsbury – hitting a woman and breaking her leg in four places – has avoided an immediate jail sentence.
Shrewsbury Crown Court heard that what started out as a prank led to “two years of hell” for the injured pedestrian Barbara Bates.
The court was told Rogers was being given a lift home by Leask after a night out. When the car stopped at traffic lights Rogers grabbed the traffic cone as a prank. They were travelling down The Mount when he threw the cone, hitting Mrs Bates.Barbara Bates was walking home with her husband thinking what a lovely day she’d just had – when in an instant her life was turned upside down.
Dean Easthope, prosecuting, told the court that Rogers was a front seat passenger in the car driven by Leask, with other young men in the rear in Shrewsbury on September 19, 2020.Rogers grabbed the cone when the car stopped at traffic lights to pay a prank on the owner of the house they were going to.She spent five days in hospital with a fractured tibia and with her artificial knee displaced.Mrs Bates said: “We live in a first-floor flat and with no lift I had to get up the stairs on my bottom.
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