A MOTORIST involved in a crash which resulted in the death of a four-year-old boy never had formal driving lessons, a court heard.

Enfield Magistrates was told how a car driven by Rifat Opan mounted the pavement in St Edmund's Street, Edmonton, and ploughed into a group of children who were playing.

The car slammed through a wall and one child, Kurt Thomas, of Kendal Gardens, Edmonton, was killed.

His cousin Bobby, who was also four at the time, suffered a broken leg and another cousin, Charlie, seven, was thrown into the air. He suffered shock.

At the court on Thursday, Opan, of Montagu Road, Edmonton, admitted driving without due care and attention and drving without a licence or insurance.

Magistrates banned him from driving for two years.

He was also fined £150 for careless driving, £250 for having no insurance, £75 for having no licence, and ordered to pay £40 costs.

An inquest in February heard in detail how the accident took place on August 27, last year.

Opan, driving a red Volkswagen Golf, had swerved to avoid a little girl who had run out from behind a van parked on the opposite pavement.

The injured children were taken to Chase Farm Hospital, where Kurt was pronounced dead at 6.49pm.

The court heard that Opan, 32, had been taught to drive informally in his home village in Turkey ? but had never passed a driving test either in his own country or in the UK.