"Coventry tattoo artist leaves mother and daughter trapped in car after 60mph smash"

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He admitted drink-driving and dangerous driving in connection with the crash



A tattoo artist had been drinking before he got behind the wheel and ploughed in to another car at twice the speed limit, leaving a daughter and mother badly injured and trapped in the other car.

Scott Roe had got "bored of waiting" for the car in front of him to speed and swerved around it on to the wrong side of the road and was travelling at 60mph when he hit an Audi coming the other way head-on.

The 19-year-old Audi diver suffered a host of injuries including a fractured knee and ankle, while her mother had to have metal plates inserted into her shattered pelvis and was then unable to move for three-and-a-half months after her release from hospital.

Roe, 39, of Turbine Hall, Electric Wharf, Coventry, pleaded guilty at Warwick Crown Court to two charges of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and driving with excess alcohol.

He was given a 16-month sentence, suspended for 18 months, ordered to take part in a rehabilitation activity and an offending programme, do 150 hours of unpaid work and pay £535 costs, and was banned from driving for four years.

Sentencing Roe, Recorder Francesca Levett told him: “This was a seriously dangerous manoeuvre executed in the briefest of moments, and no doubt your judgement was clouded by the amount of alcohol you had consumed.

“Your speed was excessive, estimated to have been twice the speed limit in that area.

“What followed was the consequence of your decision to overtake when it was clearly dangerous to do so, and the injuries caused to Miss Sidwell and her mother were extremely serious.

“I have to balance whether the offences really are so serious that only prison is justified. I am just persuaded that I can suspend this sentence.”

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Andrew Wilkins, defending, said: “Mr Roe is horrified at the consequences of his actions.”

Yes, we can see that from his picture!