A speeding driver who regularly flouted road traffic laws has admitted killing two female pedestrians in Kirkcaldy.
James Clunie was driving a Land Rover Discovery when he collided with Jane MacDonald and Abby Hucknall at a crossing point as they made their way to the town’s Asda supermarket to buy groceries.
Clunie, 36, who has previous speeding offences and driving bans, was supplied with the vehicle as a replacement car provided through his insurance company.
The 4×4 was fitted with a tracker device which monitored its speed and data revealed that in the five weeks he had it before the fatal crash he drove at speeds of up to 115mph and at more than treble the speed limit in a residential area in a village.
During the lead-up to the fatal crash the Land Rover was seen to “roll and bounce” as it took traffic calming bumps at speed in Kirkcaldy, and one witness described the driver as an idiot.
At the High Court in Edinburgh, Clunie, a mechanic, of Laurel Crescent, Kirkcaldy, admitted causing the death of mother-of-three Ms MacDonald, 37, and Ms Hucknall, 18, by careless driving on November 27 in 2012 after driving at excessive speed in the town’s Dunnikier Way.
Clunie will be sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow on December 1.
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