Driver killed biker then left scene to take cocaine

A DRUG-addict driver without a licence or insurance killed a motorcyclist in a head-on smash, then fled from the scene to take cocaine.

Daniel Pryce, 40, had two young children in his people carrier when he hit the oncoming bike while overtaking.

Its rider, 47-year-old Martin Elam, died following the incident last August. His pillion passenger and partner, Trudy Edgington, has been left disabled.

Pryce drove off from the scene and made six other phone calls before eventually dialling for an ambulance. He had been driving unsupervised on a provisional licence at the time of the crash on the A52 at Aunsby, Lin- colnshire. He was on police bail for an earlier offence of driving while over the drug-drive limit.

Jailing him for six years and eight months at Lincoln Crown Court yesterday, Judge Andrew Easteal said his priority after the crash ‘was to get to a place where he could take drugs’.

He told police he went to his mother’s house to inject cocaine and a heroin substitute to calm down.

Miss Edgington spent weeks in hospital with serious fractures and still relies on crutches to walk. In a victim impact statement, she said she was heartbroken by the loss of Mr Elam. The couple were returning to their home in Donington, Lincolnshire, after a day out in Derbyshire.

Pryce, of Harlaxton, Lincs, admitted causing death and serious injury by dangerous driving. He was disqualified from driving for eight years and four months and fined for the drug-drive offence.

On bail for drug-driving