A danger driver who was handed an indefinite sentence after killing a mother and leaving her cousin and daughter badly injured has fled from an open prison.
Alan Paul Steel was high on drugs when he ploughed into three members of the same family on the Ford Estate in Sunderland in September 2006. The heroin user, who was 26 at the time, left all three lying in the road as he fled from the scene.
Paula Stead, 32, was mowed down and killed by Steel during the hit-and-run and her 10-year-old cousin Danica Green lost her leg. Paula's daughter Bridie also injured during the collision at the junction of St Luke’s Road and Front Street.
