Footage released by police of horror crash in Queensbury | Bradford …
The unknown pedestrian was just seconds away from being hit by the lorry which had been struck by a speeding Volkswagen Passat at the Sandbeds junction with Brighouse Road in Queensbury on May 11 last year.
The clip released by West Yorkshire[1] Police shows the Passat smashing into the side of the HGV causing it to jackknife.
A man from Halifax has been jailed after the car he was in ran a red light causing a road traffic collision in Bradford, which left him and his passenger with serious injuries.
Watch the video below: pic.twitter.com/VCRputUfHN[2]
— West Yorkshire Police (@WestYorksPolice) May 11, 2023[3]Yesterday, the Passat driver Shaheib Mohammed, 24, was jailed for two years and eight months[4] after Bradford[5] Crown Court heard that his passenger that night suffered a catalogue of serious injuries including a bleed on the brain and a ripped aorta.
Judge Colin Burn was told that the injured man, who was described as Mohammed’s best friend, had declined to cooperate with the police investigation and did not want to see him sent to prison.
But Mohammed, of Clay Pits Lane, Pellon, Halifax, pleaded guilty to a charge of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and Judge Burn said his actions had been “lethally dangerous”.
References
- ^ Yorkshire (www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk)
- ^ pic.twitter.com/VCRputUfHN (t.co)
- ^ May 11, 2023 (twitter.com)
- ^ Passat driver Shaheib Mohammed, 24, was jailed for two years and eight months (www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk)
- ^ Bradford (www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk)