A driver caused her passenger horrific head injuries when she raced along a narrow lane in her BMW at 80mph before being launched into the air and then nosediving down an embankment onto the beach below.
Macauly Boswell-Morgan's badly injured rear passenger was trapped in her wrecked car but Swansea Crown Court heard she appeared more interested in removing a bottle of vodka and cannisters of laughing gas from the crash scene than in his welfare. While 25-year-old Boswell-Morgan walked away seemingly uninjured a passenger sustained a catalogue of serious head and spine injuries and had to spend three months in hospital.
A judge said if the defendant had not had primary caring responsibilities for her young son, the sentence she was to receive would be very different.
