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Feb 2021
Police officer avoids jail after 50mph red light Harrogate crash
A police officer who drove through a red light at 50 miles per hour and crashed into a car carrying two elderly women has avoided jail.
Judge Burn told DC Quita Passmore, 38, it was "not in the public interest for the courts to be sending emergency responders to jail".
A jury at Bradford Crown Court found Passmore guilty of two counts of dangerous driving yesterday.
Sentenced today, she received a 10-month jail term, suspended for two years, and was disqualified from driving for two years.
She was also ordered to pay £1,800 in court costs and a victim surcharge of between £100 to £150.
Judge Burn said:
Passmore was responding to reports of an officer in distress at 10pm on May 5 in 2018 when she drove an undercover police vehicle through red lights at the junction of Harrogate's Otley Road and Cold Bath Road.
Patricia Bulmer and Janet Roberton, who were travelling in the car she hit, sustained severe injuries, including broken bones and a punctured lung.
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Defending Passmore, barrister Adam King said:
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