PARK TRYST TEENS IN SMASH HORROR
Girl seriously hurt after her pal crashed car at 90mph chasing two men they had met in secret
A TEENAGER left her friend with horror injuries after losing control of her car at high speed as she pursued two men they had been having a secret tryst with. Chloe Duncan was seen driving at 90mph before spinning out of control and flipping several times in the air before coming to rest in a field.
Jessica Rooney, 19, wept in court as she recalled the crash which left her with foot-long scars as well as six metal screws and three plates in her back.
She told a trial at Perth Sheriff Court that she and nursery worker Duncan had earlier met up with Dale McBain, 26, and his friend at a park.
When McBain and his friend set off from Coupar Angus Forfar in his white Audi, Jessica said Duncan pursued them in her Ford Fiesta.
“She was trying to catch up with them,” Jessica told the court. “It was pitch black. Chloe’s speed was the cause of the crash. The car landed on my side and Chloe was hanging down on me. I was scared. Chloe didn’t want to call the police for some reason.
“She wanted to call Dale to come back. It felt like my ribs were crushed.”
McBain, who drove the girls to hospital, told the trial that he did not want his partner – now his wife – to find out he had been secretly meeting a then 18-year-old and her 17-year-old friend.
He admitted asking the teenagers to lie and said: “We shouldn’t have been with the girls at that time because we were in relationships and in marriage.”
Duncan, now 20, of Dundee, denied driving dangerously and at excessive speed and causing serious injury to her friend.
She was found guilty of the lesser charge of careless driving on the A94, banned from driving for six months and fined £600.