SINGLE mum Aileen Darroch-Davies ended up with six penalty points on her driving licence after she let her son borrow her car for a night out.

And the 50-year-old from West Overton, near Marlborough, got another three points after she was caught speeding on A346 Chiseldon to Marlborough road.

Frank Murphy, prosecuting, told magistrates in Swindon on Thursday that police were called to the three vehicle accident in Belle Vue Road, Swindon, on May 13 last year.

He said a W-reg Volvo estate which had been parked on the hill had run into two other vehicles on the hill.

When police found the driver in a pub he told them he was Marcel Jonathan Darroch-Davies and lived in Ogbourne St George.

He said that he thought that he had left the handbrake on when he parked the vehicle but when police looked inside it they found that it had not been applied.

Mr Murphy said he told officers he was not insured to drive the vehicle.

He said he had told his mother he was covered on his own policy, but was not. However, he did have her permission to use the car.

He said Mrs Darroch-Davies was caught by a speed camera at Chiseldon doing 62mph in a 40mph zone on September 16.

She pleaded guilty to permitting the use of her vehicle without insurance, and to the speeding offence.

David Gostling, defending, said that his client believed that the speed limit where she was caught was 50mph and not 40mph, but accepted that she was still over the limit.

He said although she was duped by her son, she was nevertheless responsible. He said she receives sickness benefit for serious back problems, and needed her car for physio and hospital appointments.

She was fined a total of £90 and ordered to pay £35 court costs.