Crash driver left gran in wheelchair ... then took selfie
BLOOD dripping down his face, a reckless driver takes a selfie after a head- on crash which left a grandmother in a wheelchair.
Connor Young, 21, ploughed his souped-up Renault Clio into Barry and Jennifer Fleming’s Audi TT as the couple were heading home after an evening’s drive.
As his victims struggled with their horrific injuries, Young took a smirking photo on his phone from his wrecked car.
The former scaffolder was yesterday jailed for two years.
Mrs Fleming, 48, suffered multiple injuries including a compound fracture of the right ankle.
A court heard she was still in ‘extreme pain’, has post-traumatic stress and her leg may have to be amputated. ‘I scream and shout when I am in the passenger seat of a car now,’ the grandmother of nine told an earlier hearing.
Her husband, 40, had a fractured sternum, collapsed lung and injuries to his knee and shoulder. He could face further surgery. speak- ing outside court, Mrs Fleming said: ‘He has ruined our lives.’
Mr Fleming, now his wife’s fulltime carer, added: ‘That car in his hands was like a loaded gun.’
Following the horror smash, Young spent several days in hospital where doctors inserted a metal plate or wires in his collar bone, knee and left wrist.
The collision, on the A803 near Falkirk, happened after Young swung out to overtake near a bridge, crossing double- white lines. of causing Young, driving was serious of earlier on Bonnybridge, June injury found 28, by 2017. guilty dangerous stirlingshire, sentencing him at stirling sheriff Court, sheriff simon Collins said: ‘He was repeatedly overtaking ... when it was unsafe. ‘Ultimately he crossed doublewhite lines on a blind bend causing a head- on collision that Mr Fleming was powerless to prevent. It is surprising, perhaps extremely fortunate, that no one was killed.’ He said it was ‘ doubtful at best’ that the couple, from Glasgow, would ever fully recover. Young had claimed the smash was an ‘unfortunate accident’ – a claim rejected by the jury. sheriff Collins dismissed a plea from Young’s lawyer, Martin Morrow, to keep his client out of jail. Mr Morrow said Young had been assessed as ‘ vulnerable in exposure to a prison environment’. Young was also banned from driving for three years.