Katie Price is BANNED from driving for two years after refusing to tell police who was behind wheel when her pink Range Rover was in crash last year
- Former glamour model was charged with withholding the name of the driver
- Price did not attend today's sentencing hearing at Bexley Magistrates Court
- Mother-of-five, 41, maintained someone else was driving her pink Range Rover
Katie Price has today been banned from driving for two years - but failed to turn up to court because she was abroad.
The mother-of-five was charged with withholding the name of the driver after her Range Rover was involved in a collision in Bexley, south east London, last November.
Price, who pleaded guilty to the charge at a hearing in August, did not attend today's sentencing hearing at Bexley Magistrates Court, claiming she was only due to return to London Gatwick Airport this morning.
This is the sixth time the former glamour model has been banned from the roads.
Last month she revealed she was selling her garish £75,000 pink Range Rover and Fiat Ducato horsebox 'because they get her into trouble'.
Price (pictured last week) refused to attend today's sentencing hearing because she was abroad
According to her Instagram account, Katie posted a video today less than an hour after the court hearing in which she said she was filming all day for her new reality TV show My Crazy Life
Price took to Instagram earlier this year to joke she would swap her garish car for a mobility scooter
Price's car seen with a scrape to the front bumper in a pub car park in Shooters Hill, Bexley, South east London, in October
The 41-year-old's lawyers wrote to the court to try and adjourn the hearing because she was out of the country.
But District Judge Robert Hunter refused any further delays, telling Bexley Magistrates' Court: 'This hearing has already been adjourned once. This date was agreed by both sides. I am not inclined to further adjourn this matter.'
The court heard Price already had six points on her licence for previous offences, and she was slapped with a further six for her latest offence - leading her to be banned.
The judge gave her a £440 fine, a £44 surcharge and ordered her to pay £100 in costs.
Price claimed at the hearing in August that she had been working to get her life back on track, and blamed the incident on her mental health and post-traumatic stress disorder.
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She repeatedly denied she had been driving and claimed the driver was her on-off boyfriend Kris Boyson's friend.
Price has been banned from driving a number of times in the past.
Some of her previous convictions - including a disqualification from January 2018, driving while disqualified last July, and six points for an offence she was convicted of in January this year, were read to the court.
Katie Price outside Bexley Magistrates' Court in February, following a drink driving trial where she was banned from driving for three months
Katie wasn't difficult to spot in her unmistakable hot pink four-by-four after she returned to the roads in June
In 2012, Price was disqualified for a year after failing to respond to two speeding tickets.
Last February she was banned for six months after failing to tell police who was driving when her car was caught breaking a 50mph speed limit near her home.
She was banned because she already had six points on her licence and was handed a further six by a court.
Price was also banned for three months in January after being caught driving while disqualified and without insurance last summer.
And in February she was banned for three months for being almost twice the legal limit while in charge of her pink Range Rover last October.
She was found slumped in the back of the 4x4 after police saw it hit a grass verge minutes before in Shooter's Hill, Greenwich, South East London.
According to her Instagram account, Katie posted a video today less than an hour after the court hearing in which she said she was filming all day for her new reality TV show My Crazy Life.
The former Loose Women panellist recently refuted claims that she will be forced to give up her home as she is due back in court over bankruptcy repayments.
Price is due to appear before a specialist insolvency and companies court in London on Monday.
She avoided bankruptcy last December after reaching an agreement over a £22,000 tax bill.
Price arriving at Bexley Magistrates' Court for another driving charge in February
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