Crash biker jailed as judge says: ‘You’ve only yourself to blame’:

AMOTORBIKE rider who thought he was “indestructible” when he drove at high speed onto a busy road was jailed after admitting dangerous driving.

Lloyd Watson Lloyd collided with a yellow Suzuki car when he failed to negotiate a mini-roundabout on Caernarfon Road, Bangor last July.

The 25-year-old, right, of Penrhyn Avenue, Maesgeirchen, Bangor, suffered serious head injuries and was airlifted to the specialist trauma unit at the Royal Stoke University Hospital.

Lloyd, who wasn’t wearing a helmet, was said to be still suffering the effects of the incident, in which he suffered a bleed on the brain and a fractured skull.

He appeared for sentence at Caernarfon Crown Court after admitting charges of dangerous driving, disqualified driving and breaching a Criminal Behaviour Order.

Jailing him for 18 months, Judge Huw Rees said he was driving aggressively and at speeds of 60 to 70 mph as he approached the roundabout.

“You were not wearing a helmet. Indeed you were wearing very little apart from a pair of shorts.

“You did not intend to stop at the roundabout. You believed speed would enable you to avoid a collision. You deemed yourself to be indestructible but you were very wrong.

“You suffered very serious injuries but you only have yourself to blame.”

Lloyd was also banned from driving for 45 months and must take an extended retest.

The judge ordered the bike be forfeited.

The orange and black motorcycle ridden by Lloyd caused significant damage to the car and it was written off.

James Coutts, prosecuting, said a blood sample at hospital showed levels of Benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine, above the legal driving limit.

He added Lloyd was disqualified from driving in March last year for riding a motorcycle without a licence or insurance and not wearing a protective helmet.

The Criminal Behaviour Order was made for these offences.

Elen accepted

Owen, defending, the offences were serious and crossed the custody threshold.

But she argued the court could take an exceptional course and adopt the alternative proposals in the pre-sentence report and suspend the prison term.

She said Lloyd will have to live with the effects of the injuries for a long time and was very sorry for causing the accident.

After the hearing Sergeant Meurig Jones, of the North Wales Police’s Roads Policing Unit, said: “His irresponsible actions resulted in himself sustaining serious injuries and it is only sheer luck that nobody was killed in this collision.

“I hope his sentence serves as a reminder to others that the law is there for a reason and should be abided by.”