Driver banned after failing to brake and knocking down schoolboy in Grangemouth
Get the latest Scottish crime and courts news sent straight to your inbox with our daily Criminal Record newsletterA tragic mother who failed to brake in time when a teenage boy stepped unexpectedly onto a zebra crossing in front of her car was banned from driving today.Lesley Sneddon hit and knocked down the 13-year-old boy in her Vauxhall Corsa, causing minor bleeding on the brain.The child was kept in hospital overnight but went home the next day without need for further treatment.Sneddon, 49, a carer who had just finished a home visit when the accident occurred, wept in the dock at Falkirk Sheriff Court as the facts of the case were narrated.The court was told that Belisha beacon lights on the crossing, on Abbots Road, Grangemouth, had