The son of car tycoon Sir Arnold Clark has been banned from driving after crashing at a golf resort and leaving two friends badly injured.
Adam Clark, 48, was drunk and going too fast when he hit an oak tree at Loch Lomond Golf Club. His passengers Craig Hyslop and Patrick Dunese had pleaded with him to slow down moments before the crash which put both in hospital.
After the smash he was heard to say, 'I put the foot down and I f****d it up. I ruined it'.
Clark, of Bearsden, Dunbartonshire, appeared at Dumbarton Sheriff Court and admitted driving at excessive speed while under the influence of alcohol in June last year.
Sheriff Seith Ireland ordered him to carry out 300 hours of unpaid work and disqualified him for a year.
The court heard Clark and his friends had been staying in lodges in the 600-acre grounds of the club at Luss, Dunbartonshire, where membership can cost upwards of £100,000.
They had been drinking in the bar before the crash but declined an offer of a chauffeur service to their accommodation. Neither of his passengers were wearing a seatbelt.
Hyslop was trapped in the back seat and required surgery for leg and shoulder injuries which left him with mobility problems. Dunese spent four days in a high-dependency unit with internal bleeding and broken ribs and still suffers back pain and post-traumatic stress.
Clark, who had been wearing a seatbelt, suffered whiplash and bruising. His pleas of not guilty to charges of failing to cooperate with a breath test and being more than three times the drink limit were accepted because he was on private property when the crash happened.
Clark has most recently been working as the business sales and development director at the firm his father set up. Sir Arnold passed away in April 2017 aged 89.
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