A MOTORIST has admitted seriously injuring a couple due to driving dangerously near Catcleugh.

Andrew Mackenzie appeared at Newcastle Magistrates’ Court on Friday, June 9. The 33-year-old pleaded guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving during an incident on Friday, November 25.

The defendant was driving dangerously on the A68 and caused serious injury to a man and a woman. Mackenzie, of Bowmont Court, Kelso, will be sentenced at Newcastle Crown Court on July 7.