A drugged-up driver who went at speeds of more than 100mph killed two young men in a horror crash.Taylor Hanlon lost control of his high-powered Subaru on the A706 near Kepscaith Farm in West Lothian on August 29, 2020.The unemployed 27-year-old's car landed upturned in a field.
Connor Elgey, 19, and Troi Lawton, 23, had been passengers in the vehicle.Promising chef Connor never survived having been trapped in the wrecked Subaru.
Troi - a mechanic - was flung out the vehicle and also died.Father and son Andrew and John Goldie - who were the other passengers - were badly hurt as a result of horrific crash.Tests later showed Hanlon had earlier taken cocaine, cannabis and Valium before getting behind the wheel in the early hours of that morning.Hanlon today pled guilty to causing the deaths and serious injury to the other men by dangerous driving.
He is already behind bars for a domestic abuse matter.Hanlon, of Bathgate, West Lothian, will return to the dock in the new year.
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