Drink driver jailed after hit and run crash with pregnant cyclist caused her to miscarry

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A hit-and-run driver who downed eight vodkas in a pub shortly before he crashed his van into a pregnant cyclist leading to the loss of her unborn child has been jailed.

Gary Marston hit the rider from behind as she rode in a dedicated cycle lane, before fleeing the scene in Aylestone, Leicester, in December last year.

The tragedy occurred moments after he had walked out of a nearby pub and got behind the wheel of his work van, LeicesterLive reports.

Leicester Crown Court heard after the crash Marston drove to his mum's house where he continued drinking and took cocaine. His victim only pulled through because of her general fitness and good health before the crash but she lost the child she, her partner and their families had been praying