A restaurant owner who caused a horrific head-on crash when she turned around to chastise children in the back seat of her car has been banned from driving for two years.
One of the children was knocked out cold while the oncoming driver suffered a perforated bowel and months in a back brace as a consequence of the three car pile-up.
Debbie Douglas, 32, told a jury she felt she "deserved" her own injuries because of the way she had been driving at the time of the crash.
She required crutches after suffering a broken left foot, pelvis, ribs and spine as well as a cracked sternum, a lacerated liver and a deflated lung.
The oldest child suffered facial bruising and a back injury while the younger child had to receive treatment for a cut to her head.
Lucy McMaster, who was driving in the opposite direction when Douglas' Nissan Juke ploughed into her, sustained serious back and bowel injuries and needed months of rehab.
The jury at Dundee Sheriff Court found Douglas guilty of causing serious injury by driving dangerously on the A91 in Fife on 23 January 2019.
Douglas, who wept as she described the aftermath of the three-car collision near Cupar, was also ordered to carry out 250 hours unpaid work in the community.
She was also placed on a curfew for eight months, from 9pm to 7am each day, and advised to undergo driver training as Sheriff Alistair Carmichael warned her she had come close to being jailed.
The jury was told that a Volkswagen Golf driven by Liam Grieve was also written off after being forced onto a grass verge by the collision.
Douglas, who runs the Greenhouse Bar & Grill at Cupar Golf Club with her husband, told jurors one of the children was still unconscious when she removed them from her Kia Sportage after the crash.
She admitted that she must have veered into the opposite lane while turning around and telling the children to behave.
Witnesses also told the court they had seen Douglas, of Pitscottie Road, Cupar, trying to overtake other vehicles and said she was driving erratically.
Douglas said: "One of the girls leaned forward and pushed my phone forward. I turned round, told them to stop, turned back round and just seen headlights right in front of me.
"I knew instantly, I knew what I had done. I felt a crash and then a complete silence. I knew I had to get the girls out of the car. I was screaming at the eldest to wake up, which she did.
"I remember going to the side of the road and just lying in pain. It was something I deserve and I'll never forget. I'm just really sorry. I took my eye off the road for a split second."
She told the jury how she travelled on the A91 regularly and was always cautious due to it being "notorious" for rogue drivers and collisions.
The court heard how Douglas was driving back from Dollar after dropping off chef whites for her husband.
She claimed she was in no rush to return home but Mr Grieve gave evidence claiming Douglas' driving seemed hurried as she tried to overtake.
Ms McMaster suffered a broken forearm and thumb, a fractured vertebrae and bowel, and required two operations on her left arm to insert plates and screws.
She believed Douglas was deliberately moving onto the opposing carriageway.
A jury found her guilty by a majority verdict of causing serious injury to Ms McMaster and two children by driving dangerously.
She was convicted of driving on the wrong side of the road and into the path of Ms McMaster's vehicle, which in turn collided with the vehicle driven by Liam Grieve.
