A driver who left a woman seriously injured in a head-on crash after dozing off at the wheel with a child in his car has been jailed.
Brett Miller, who had drugs in his system, knew he was struggling to stay awake almost an hour before his BMW drifted into oncoming traffic, leaving a woman coming the other way trapped in her car with multiple injuries.
Newcastle Crown Court heard the 37-year-old, of Legion Road, Denton, Newcastle, who has previous convictions for driving offences involving crashes, picked a youngster around 6pm on December 5 2021. Around 9.20pm someone phoned Miller and his speech was slurred and he said he kept falling asleep at the wheel and that the youngster had to keep slapping him to wake him up.
