A chauffeur for VIPs staying at Edinburgh’s top hotels crashed into a couple crossing the road in his Mercedes. Roderick Rowan, 57, struck the pair next to a zebra crossing, throwing the woman onto the bonnet and leaving her seriously injured.
Rowan, whose job is ferrying diplomats and high-profile figures around the capital, told how he failed to see them. He admitted a charge of careless driving while being represented by Gordon Jackson KC, the lawyer who successfully defended Alex Salmond at his 2020 sex assault trial.
Rowan pled guilty at the city’s sheriff court on Tuesday to colliding with pedestrians Ashley Anderson and Martins Komarovskis on Pennywell Road. Fiscal depute Cheryl Porter said the collision took place at around 3.10pm on a straight section of the northbound road with clear visibility.
