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A driver of a garbage truck who ran down a kindergarten student while he was riding his scooter on a footpath has been fined $2,500 for the offence.
David Ross Williams pleaded guilty to careless driving causing bodily harm at the Perth Magistrates Court on Thursday.
Williams, 55, reversed his Veolia truck from a laneway next to a school in Scarborough, north-west Perth, at 8.13am on November 24.
The vehicle struck Jackson Fogarty while he was riding his push scooter, causing his mother to scream in horror.
David Ross Williams (pictured, centre) was fined $2,500 after his garbage truck struck a kindergarten student in Scarborough, Perth in November last year
John Fogarty, Jackson's father, said Jackson spent a week in hospital because of his injuries and was confined to a bed for three days.
He said his son suffered a fractured shinbone and a spinal injury and spent two months in a wheelchair as a result of his injuries.
'He wasn't able to move.
