Cocaine-fuelled 'menace' jailed after driving over roundabout and smashing into van
A drugged-up driver who went straight over a Telford roundabout and crashed into a van, slamming it into a wall and seriously injuring the driver, has been jailed for two years.
William Davies, 29, of Overdale, Telford, was so impaired by cocaine he had no recollection of the smash in Telford's Church Street on November 11 last year, a court heard.
Shrewsbury Crown Court was told on Friday that Davies, a construction worker, was serving a suspended sentence for dangerous driving when he drove his white Ford Fiesta over the roundabout in Church Street at around 8pm.
His victim, in a Nissan Navara van, was "seriously injured" in the crash, which wrote both vehicles off, and had to be cut free from the wreckage.
Prosecutor, Ms Rebecca Da Silva KC, told the court that the defendant, who had pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, driving while under the influence of cocaine, driving while disqualified, driving with no insurance, and possession of cocaine, was so intoxicated, he had no memory of the collision.
