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Five years in prison and 10-year road ban for hit-and-run drink driver who had also smoked cannabis before leaving cyclist for dead with a severed foot

The cyclist, an experienced and highly respected garda, suffered life changing injuries which have left him prone to lung infections, but is still keen to continue working in the force

Sat, Nov 25, 2023 16:09

Drink driver who sped through red light and left teenage cyclist with life-changing injuries, before letting wife take the blame, jailed for two years and ten months

Jerzy Jozefiak, who was driving at 48mph in a 30mph zone when he struck the 16-year-old, will serve only half of his sentence in prison

Wed, Nov 15, 2023 15:58

Drink driver who “ploughed through cyclist” at 60mph before giving police “cock and bull story” jailed for 14 months

Holly Davies was almost double the drink drive limit when she struck doctor Jonathan Bickford last September – before claiming that the damage to her Mercedes was caused by parking on a main road

Wed, Aug 23, 2023 17:46

Drink driver who caused two crashes and left cyclist in intensive care jailed for 50 months

Andrew Peter Burns was on a pre-Christmas night out with work colleagues, drank "five or six" rounds before being denied entry to a pub for being too drunk — he then got behind the wheel of his car.

Tue, Jul 25, 2023 09:44

Peter Sagan handed three-month suspended prison sentence for drink driving

The three-time world champion was also banned from driving for three months after being caught “dangerously” riding his scooter the morning after a night out in Monaco last month

Wed, Jun 28, 2023 17:24

Jailed drink-driving paramedic who killed cyclist after 10 pints avoids being struck off

Robert Woodruff was off-duty, drunk and looking at his phone when he veered onto the wrong side of the road and killed father-of-five Richard Goodwin, a tribunal allowing him to keep his medical licence despite his five-year jail sentence

Wed, Jun 21, 2023 16:31

Drink driver jailed after he ran over cyclist (Surrey Police)

Cyclist run over by drink driver in shocking footage released by police after man jailed

Steven Selwood, a former professional cricketer, has been sentenced to two years and three months in prison for hitting and continuing to drive over the elderly cyclist

Sat, May 13, 2023 08:27

Hit-and-run drink driver thought cyclist he seriously injured was “only a traffic cone”

Motorist Daniel Towers was banned from driving for 16 months following the collision, which left the cyclist “barely conscious” and “struggling to breathe”

Thu, Dec 08, 2022 13:12

Drink driver who ploughed into cyclist with friend riding on bonnet jailed for 14 months

Daniel Fownes was already serving a suspended sentence for stealing from his employer when he drunkenly hit a cyclist while Fownes' friend was on his bonnet

Sat, Nov 26, 2022 19:12

Drink driver who hit and nearly killed 13-year-old cyclist minutes after being refused service at pub jailed for just over two years

Ambrose Taylor had been refused another drink at one pub and was illegally driving to another when the incident happened

Wed, Sep 14, 2022 16:06