Killer driver bragged he could beat speed cameras

A MOTORIST who boasted about being able to beat speed cameras before killing two women in a 90mph crash has been jailed for eight years.

Arrogant Daniel Young, 25, was driving his BMW at speeds of up to 140mph on the wrong side of the road while double the legal limit for cannabis.

He tried to overtake a line of cars on a blind bend when he hit a Vauxhall Corsa on the A6135 in Renishaw, Derbyshire, on October 7 last year.

Driver Caroline Ball, 63, and her 59-year-old friend Margaret Collier, both cleaners from Sheffield on their way to work, were killed instantly.

Young escaped with only a minor injury to his hand.

Two months previously, he had filmed himself driving in the same car, on the same stretch of road, in a video titled: ‘How to beat the speed cameras’, Derby crown court heard.

Prosecutor Laura Pitman said Young was laughing and talking and clearly filming himself at the wheel.

The footage showed him driving on the wrong side of the road, just after the scene of the fatal collision, at speeds of more than 80mph in order not to be caught by the cameras.

Before the crash he had finished his shift at the Amazon warehouse in Barlborough, Derbyshire, at 5.30am.

Witnesses described seeing Young’s 5 Series BMW overtaking lorries and cars at around 80mph in a 30mph limit.

Officers were also able to calculate from timings of cameras on the route that he averaged 115mph and reached 141mph in a 40mph zone.

As well as being two times over the legal cannabis limit, he tested positive for cocaine.

Young (pictured), of Dronfield, admitted two counts of causing death by dangerous driving and was jailed for eight years on Friday.

He was also handed a ten-year driving ban that will not begin until after his sentence has been served.

DC Scott Cooper, from Derbyshire Constabulary’s Collision Investigation Unit, said after the case: ‘ The complete disregard Daniel Young showed that morning is utterly staggering. But this was no one-off event. The evidence found on his own phone shows that he would use the public roads as his own personal racetrack – filming himself laughing at speeds that would eventually rob two families of two beloved women. ‘The sentence handed down to Young will never bring back Caroline and Margaret, but I hope it brings some closure to their families, and shows that driving in the same way as Young is simply unacceptable.’