Dragoslav Vasic, 70, of Vauvert, St Peter Port, admitted counts of dangerous driving, using a vehicle without insurance and while in a dangerous condition.
The court was told how he had been unable to see through the broken windscreen and had eventually collided with another vehicle.
‘You might just as well have been driving blindfold at night with a paper bag over your head for good measure to make sure you couldn’t see,’ Deputy Judge Graeme McKerrell told Mt Vasic.
‘You didn’t need to be a fortune teller to see that an accident would happen.’
Prosecuting Advocate Phoebe Cobb told the court how a witness had seen the defendant driving in St Peter Port at about 3.30pm. The windscreen of his red Jaguar S-type was smashed and there was no rear window. The driver was looking ahead by sticking his head out of the side window and the car had mounted the kerb several times along the way.
The witness called the police and a second person called in shortly afterwards to say that they had seen the same thing. At about 3.50pm a police officer who had been looking for the driver was asked to attend a road traffic accident in the Grange and found the defendant’s vehicle had collided with a blue Nissan.
He was asked to provide his insurance documents but was unable to. In a voluntary interview that was conducted later, he admitted being the driver and said he thought he was insured.
He told the court that he had been in hurry to move the vehicle and had been taking it to the scrap yard. He asked for mercy when it came to any licence suspension as he had a prosthetic leg.
Deputy Judge McKerrell said the defendant had to be banned for a minimum of 12 months as he had been using a vehicle without insurance and there were no special reasons. The defendant said he had tried to get the car removed by lorry but nobody had been picking the phone up.
Deputy Judge McKerrell said there was no reason why the car had to be driven that day. To make matters worse, Mr Vasic had been intending to drive it to St Sampson’s. His actions had been extraordinarily stupid.
He fined him £1,400 for dangerous driving with a two-year licence suspension. A £600 penalty was meted for not having insurance with an 18 months ban, to run concurrent. A six-month ban, also concurrent, was imposed for using a vehicle in a dangerous condition.
Mr Vasic said he had driven to the court and his car was parked outside. He asked if he could drive it home. Mr McKerrell said definitely not and he would have to get it removed by lawful means.