A rookie driver piled her car into a showroom forecourt causing more than £12,000 worth of damage.
Nadia Anwar, 24, who had passed her test only months earlier, lost control of her Vauxhall Corsa on a right-hand bend while on her way to see her boyfriend at nearly three o’clock in the morning.
She veered across the carriageway of the A84 at Doune, Perthshire, collided with an eight-foot-high stone wall, ricocheted off, crossed both carriageways of the road again, swerved out-of-control into the forecourt of roadside garage Murdo Murchison Car Sales, and cannoned into a row of used cars parked outside on display for sale.
All three display vehicles and Anwar’s own car were extensively damaged in the “spectacular” crash.
Of the display vehicles on sale, a £6,000 second-hand Nissan Qashqai was written off, a two-year-old Ford Kuga Titanium sustained damage to a front panel that cost £3,795 to repair, and a three-year-old Ford Grand C-max Zetec mpv suffered £2,642 worth of general damage.
Anwar emerged from the mayhem completely unscathed.
Prosecutor Ruariadh Ferguson said: “The accused was uninjured, and, having secured her vehicle, she went home.”
Police caught up with her at her house in Bannockburn, Stirlingshire, an hour later, and she admitted having been the driver.
She explained the crash: “I froze, so it was hard to do anything with my hands and feet.”
She added that she had felt her car slipping to one side, before losing control.
Anwar, of Myreton Avenue, Bannockburn, pleaded guilty at Stirling Sheriff Court on Friday afternoon to careless driving.
The incident occurred on November 7 last year.
At the time of the accident, the road surface had been “damp”.
Defence solicitor Gordon Murphy said: “She thinks her rear wheel collided with the kerb, and that resulted in her losing control, crossing the road, hitting the dry stane dyke, and coming back across the road into the forecourt.”
Sheriff William Gilchrist asked: “Where was she going at that time of the morning?”
Mr Murphy said Anwar, a carer, had passed her test only a few months before, and had been going to see her boyfriend.
Sheriff Gilchrist fined her £300 and ordered her licence to be endorsed with four penalty points.