A drunken dad left the pub just minutes before he caused a "catastrophic" crash at nearly 130mph which took the lives of three people.
Carl Simpson, of Glebe Close, Fishburn, near Stockton-on-Tees, got into his car having just consumed several pints of lager and drove two friends before crashing into another car at 126mph on Romney Road, Lydd, Kent. The two passengers, Jack Ryle-Thompsett, from Lydd, and Michael Phelan, from Hull, died at the scene, along with Sharon Haywood, from Ashford, who was driving the other car.
Shocking pictures of the scene show the devastating aftermath of the crash where driver Simpson was the only survivor. Outlining the case at Canterbury Crown Court on Thursday, prosecutor Kieran Brand outlined how Simpson's white BMW and Ms Haywood's Dacia Duster collided less than eight minutes after Simpson left the pub.
