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A 'climate activist' Tesla driver who spent several weeks travelling in Europe crashed her luxury eco vehicle into another car after looking the wrong way because she 'forgot' she was driving in Britain, a court has heard.
High-flying company director Olessia Willybiro, 43, had her two children in the back of her £100,000 Tesla Model X when she failed to look for oncoming traffic from the right hand side as she exited a service station on the A303 near Mere, in Wiltshire.
It caused driver Damon Campion to crash into her driver's door, with his car ending up in a wooded area. Mr Campion suffered two fractures in his sternum and injured his hand in the 'traumatic' collision in which he said he felt 'lucky to be alive'.
Willybiro, who lives in a £2 million home close to the banks of the Thames in west London, had been in Europe over the summer 'for a considerable number of weeks' where she had been driving on the right hand side of the road, magistrates were told.
She claimed that upon her return home, 'her brain forgot that she was driving in the UK' and she checked the traffic in the wrong direction when she crashed on September 3 last year.
High-flying company director Olessia Willybiro, 43, (pictured) had her two children in the back of her £100,000 Tesla Model X when she crashed on the A303 near Mere, in Wiltshire
Willybiro had been abroad in Europe for a 'number of weeks' where she was driving on the right hand side and said she 'forgot' she was in Britain when she failed to look for oncoming traffic from the right hand side - causing Damon Campion to crash into her eco vehicle
The management consultant - who has also set up her own tree planting project - has now been handed a community order and been disqualified from driving for a year.
Willybiro had stopped at Willoughby Hedge services on the A303 near Mere, Wiltshire, for a 'short period of time'.
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