A CAR trader has been left facing a bill of nearly £2,000 after a car he sold turned out to be unsafe.

Gordon Horne, 45, of Patterdale Avenue, Blackburn pleaded guilty to supplying a car in a dangerously unroadworthy condition at Fleetwood Magistrates' Court.

The court heard that in April, a local man bought a 1994 Rover 216 SLI for £412 from a motor auction in Poulton.

But while driving the car back to his home in Fleetwood he noticed that it was "bouncing around at the back".

A full examination later revealed extensive structural distortion following poorly repaired accident damage. It caused the car to be unstable when cornering and braking.

Admitting that he had entered the car into the auction, Horne explained that he had not driven it himself but had taken the car to the auction on a low-loader.

Sentencing the father of three, magistrates imposed a fine of £500, and ordered him to pay prosecution costs of £703 and compensation of £757.