A 12-year-old girl will receive $200 reparation after she was knocked off her bike while riding on the footpath.
Deidre Francis Whakaue, 41, appeared before a community magistrate in the Rotorua District Court yesterday where she pleaded guilty to a charge of careless driving causing injury.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Jim Broom said at 8.10am on February 27 Whakaue was backing out of a driveway on Kawaha Point Rd, her view obscured by a solid fence.
She failed to see the girl cycling along the footpath and hit her.
The girl suffered two fractures to her lower left arm and her bike was damaged beyond repair, he said.
Whakaue's lawyer Kathy Jackson said her client, a beneficiary with one previous driving conviction 19 years ago, had taken the girl home and made sure she was okay.
Mrs Jackson said it was a "sad set of circumstances", given the high fence and the fact the girl was on the footpath.
Mr Broom said police accepted the child was to some degree "the author of her own misfortune" but Whakaue also had to accept some responsibility.
Magistrate Lesley Jensen convicted Whakaue and ordered her to pay $200 emotional harm reparation to the victim, at $5 a week.
She was also disqualified from driving for six months.