Drug driver crashes into tree leaving mum with life-changing injuries
dailyrecord.co.ukA drug driver, who was high on cocaine, lost control of his vehicle at 75 mph and collided with a tree and lamppost, leaving a young mum with life-changing injuries.
Michael Zainne Francis, 33, walked away from the incident with just bruising. But his young female passenger, 21, suffered multiple fractures, two collapsed lungs, bleeding on the brain, damage to her liver, pancreas, and a kidney, and suffered a stroke, and spent two months in hospital.
Following the incident, South Wales Police's roadside officers said that the injuries suffered by the passenger are the worst they have ever seen in a crash where the victim survived.
In a statement, which was read out to Swansea Crown Court, the victim described the life-changing impact her injuries have had on her and her family, North Wales Live writes.She said that her daughter had almost lost her mum in the crash, and it was only the need to be there for her little girl that kept her going.Swansea Crown Court heard Francis failed a roadside test for cocaine following the smash but refused to give a sample of blood for analysis.Sending him down a judge said even while his passenger was gravely injured in hospital the defendant had not been man enough to own up to what he had done and was only thinking only about himself.
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