Mother on cocaine hit cyclist on school run
A SINGLE mother was high on cocaine when she ploughed into a cyclist while driving her children home from school.
Emily Brown, 3 , was more than six times the drug-drive limit when she hit Stuart Crowther at 5mph, fracturing his skull. The lettings agent claimed she had taken the drug 48 hours earlier to cope with the sixth anniversary of the deaths of her premature twins.
Brown also said she was distracted by her daughters, aged five and 13, trying to turn on the car radio. However, test results following the crash in Oldham last October showed she may have taken the Class A drug 1 hours beforehand.
She had 33 milligrams of cocaine in 100 millilitres of blood – more than six times the limit of 50mg. In July, Brown was jailed for a year at Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court after admitting drug-driving and dangerous driving.
Mr Crowther, 58, spent three weeks in hospital.