Driver on phone just before crash killed pregnant mum
A HEAVILY pregnant mother and her unborn daughter were killed when a BMW driver ploughed into her car seconds after ending a hands-free phone call.
Rebecca Evans, 27, a charity worker, was eight months pregnant when she died in the crash on the M4 in 201 .
Her two-year-old son Cian suffered serious injuries including a fractured skull.
She was in the passenger seat of a Peugeot 407 car driven by her partner when businessman Craig Scott hit the back of the stationary car at around 70mph.
In a statement read to Swansea Crown Court, Miss Evans’s partner Alex Evans said: ‘I saw this car coming up behind us.
‘I think I said something like “He’s coming up a bit fast. I don’t think he’s slowing down”.’ He described an ‘almighty bang’. He described the aftermath of the crash as chaos as witnesses rushed to help.
Mr Evans said: ‘I saw them pull Becca from the car and I saw the blood on her dress. I knew then that our daughter had gone.
‘I knew that straight away. Not in a million years did I think I would lose Becca. I screamed and cried for them both.’
Cian was flown to hospital where he was found to have bleeding between his brain and skull and a depressed skull fracture. Both his legs were broken.
Scott told police he had been distracted by something on a motorway bridge just before the crash, and ended a handsfree call with work about five minutes before.
But phone data showed the call was actually between 14 and 34 seconds before the tragedy.
Judge Keith Thomas said Scott had taken his eyes off the road for a ‘relatively substantial period of time’.
Last year he was jailed for three years after being found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
The businessman was also disqualified from driving for five years.