Call to curb boy racers after horror crash kills Olivia, 17
A JUDGE called for tougher curbs on new drivers as he jailed two boy racers over a crash which killed a 17-year-old girl.
Schoolgirl Olivia Alkir, a backseat passenger in a car driven by a 17-year-old boy who had only passed his test the previous day, died in a horrific head-on crash.
Thomas Quick, 18, and the boy were jailed for five years after admitting causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
Quick was “repeatedly racing” with the younger driver, Judge Niclas Parry was told.
The 17-year-old’s car then crashed head-on into another car, seriously injuring passengers Dylan Jones and his mother Anwen.
Two other teenage girls suffered broken bones and one needed surgery for a ruptured bowel.
At Mold Crown Court yesterday, Judge Parry described the case as “one of the worst examples of dangerous driving one could imagine”.
He said newly qualified drivers should carry only one passenger and have a monitoring box installed for a year after passing their test.
The judge told the teenagers: “The life of one family was shattered beyond repair, the lives of four other people were, to varying degrees, changed for ever.
“You two were the cause of those dreadful consequences and that was purely due to your arrogance, selfishness and egotistical conduct.”
In a moving victim impact statement, Olivia’s mother Jo, from Efenechtyd, Denbighshire, described her daughter, who hoped to study architectural engineering, as “beautiful, kind and fun-loving”.
She listed all the things she
Tributes at the scene of the crash that killed student Olivia Alkir, left. Thomas Quick, right, one of two teenagers jailed for five years
and her husband “deserved” experience with Olivia.
They included the stress of helping Olivia cope with her A levels and her telling them she was pregnant with the first of the three children she dreamed of having.
Mrs Alkir said: “Our grief is so overwhelming that all we can wish for is our own early death.”
The court heard the teenagers “repeatedly used the roads near
to
Ruthin, NorthWales, as a racetrack” last June. The youth drove at up to 90mph and there were “screams of concern” from passengers. He even boasted of reaching 110mph as he approached a 20mph zone.
John Philpotts, prosecuting, said the 17-year-old heard his Ford Fiesta was to have a black box fitted the following day and “it’s clear he felt he had to take his chance to drive quickly”.Teachers had warned
Quick about his driving several times in the weeks before the crash, the court heard.
Debra White, defending the 17-year-old, from Dyffryn Clwyd, said he was “remorseful and truly sorry”. Dafydd Roberts, representing Quick, from Clawddnewydd, said Olivia had been a good friend and that the teenager, who wanted to be a doctor, “regrets his actions desperately”.