Five points on his licence for accident near his Fife home

Phill Jupitus has been £300 fined over a hit-and-run car crash.

The former Never Mind The Buzzcocks star smashed his Volvo XC60 SUV into a Ford Ranger pickup truck in the village of Colinsburgh, Fife, on December 21 last year.

But he didn't stop, leaving the Ford damaged at the side of the road.

Jupitus, 56, was not present for the short hearing at Dundee Justice of the Peace court today, but sent a guilty plea of failing to stop at the scene of an accident.

The comic – who lives in the fishing village of Pittenweem, about ten miles from the scene of the crash –  was also given five points on his licence

Fiscal depute Lynne Mannion said Jupitus had no previous convictions and no live points on his driving licence.

Jupitus moved to Fife in September 2017, saying he wanted to live ‘somewhere radically different from where I’ve been all my life. It was always in my head that I wanted to live near the sea.

‘While we were initially looking for somewhere closer to train lines and things, I actually quite like that where I live now it takes a bit of an effort to get there.’

– by Jamie Beatson of Kingdom News

Published: 12 Mar 2019