Jeffrey Green, senior manager of North Tyneside Council's asset facilities, has been convicted of dangerous driving, local newspaper the News Guardian has reported.
Mr Green was involved in a traffic accident that ended with his car driving into a hedge and further into a field after he had tried to overtake a car on a sharp bend in a country lane.
But an oncoming car from the opposite direction forced Mr Green to drive his Mitsubishi FTO out of the way and out of the road, those assembled at Newcastle Crown Court were told.
The accident took place at the C343 Stamforham road in Northumberland.
Mr Green was convicted of dangerous driving after a two-day trial, the court reporter for the local paper the News Guardian reported.
The defendant was disqualified from driving for a full year and will have to take an extended test to regain his license.
He will further have to pay £4,000 in court costs and a fine of £250.
The court prosecutor argued that the nature of the bend, which he described as being a 90-degree turn, completely impairing the view of what was coming ahead, had made Mr Green's driving manoeuvre particularly dangerous.
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