Ex-Man United footballer Nicky Butt banned from driving for 12 months over motorbike crash

Nicky Butt behind the wheel of his Land Rover Defender and heading home after taking his son to football training in Burnley, pulled out in front of a Honda motorbike ridden by Adam Fielding

Ex-Manchester United player Nicky Butt leaving Blackburn Magistrates' Court in East Lancashire, where he was banned from driving for 12 months and ordered to complete 100 hours unpaid work 

Former Manchester United footballer Nicky Butt has been banned from driving for 12 months and ordered to do 100 hours of unpaid work after breaking a motorcyclist’s leg in a road crash.

Butt, 49, behind the wheel of his Land Rover Defender and heading home after taking his son to football training in Burnley, pulled out in front of a Honda motorbike ridden by Adam Fielding, 28, following a “momentary lapse of concentration,” Blackburn Magistrates’ Court heard.