England and Aston Villa player Jack Grealish has been slapped with a \u00a382,499 fine and banned from driving after being found guilty of crashing his Range Rover following a party during lockdown – not to mention this happening while wearing odd slippers and reeking of booze.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old Aston Villa ace – who Birmingham magistrates were told earns \u00a355,000 a week – had admitted his guilt for reckless driving after CCTV cameras showed his car had \u2018reversed at speed\u2019 into a van, \u2018swerved\u2019 to \u2018side-swipe\u2019 a Mercedes, then slammed into a wall.<\/p>\n
Grealish\u2019s counsel, John Dye, said his client was \u2018deeply ashamed, genuinely sorry\u2019 and had paid for the damage, adding: \u2018He was wearing totally inappropriate footwear.\u2019<\/p>\n
The crash came a day after the footballer made a Twitter video urging fans to stay home. What a howler!<\/p>\n
Grealish also admitted doing 98mph on the M42 in October while \u2018late for training\u2019. Dye said:<\/p>\n
\u2018He\u2019s the club captain and didn\u2019t want to be thought badly of by his peers in the club.\u2019<\/p>\n
Grealish, of Barnt Green, Worcestershire, has already had six points on his licence from an earlier accident almost similar in nature and was handed a nine-month driving ban.<\/p>\n
District judge John Bristow however said there was \u2018no evidence\u2019 Grealish was drink-driving in the prior March 29 crash.<\/p>\n
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