INJURED mother of two Shauna Bodman was issued with a traffic ticket while trapped in her car after an accident.

Mrs Bodman, from Cherhill told magistrates in Devizes that traffic officer Mark Finistere issued her with a ticket while she was waiting to be freed by firefighters.

Mrs Bodman, who lives in The Street in Cherhill, admitted driving a car at 10pm on September 5 without a current test certificate.

She wrote to Kennet Magistrates admitting the offence. She said her MOT had expired four days earlier and her car had been booked into her local garage for a new test at 8am on September 6, the day after the accident.

She said she used her car to attend a county meeting for assistant district commissioners of Beaver Scouts at Potterne.

"I assumed wrongly that as my car was booked in for an MOT, I would be all right driving."

She was on her way home using the Devizes-Calne road at Blacklands when her Volvo was in collision with another car , leaving her trapped.

Her car was a write-off and she received a severe leg injury which left her unable to walk for six weeks.

Mrs Bodman said she was being tended by paramedics and firefighters were in the process of cutting her from her car when PC Finistere introduced himself.

She said the officer spoke to her but did not present her with the form to produce her documents to the police as he claimed in his written statement, but gave it to her husband instead.

Because of her injuries she was unable to go to a police station to produce her documents and an officer from Calne police station called at her home to examine her documents.

Mrs Bodman said she explained to the officer why her MOT was four days out of date and he issued her with a caution.

He told her he would be recommending no further action.

She said she believed it was permissible to drive a car for a week after its MOT had expired as long as it was booked for a new test. The magistrates gave Mrs Bodman an absolute discharge and made no order for costs.

Wiltshire police spokesman Graham Chivers said the HORT 1 certificate had been given to a close relative rather than the injured driver and the officer's actions had been "perfectly in order."

He said: "If the officer had wanted the driver's driving licence produced then he would have had to serve the certificate on the driver in person."