A dangerous driver who fled the scene of a horror crash while a passenger was trapped in the car has been jailed. Reece Page, 27, lost control of a Mini Cooper and smashed into a brick wall, leaving a 22-year-old man in the back seat stranded with life-changing injuries.
Unemployed Page had been in a nearby Wetherspoon pub in Hailsham, East Sussex, when he got behind the wheel of the vehicle that he had not been given permission to drive by the owner. He was also only a provisional licence holder at the time and was not displaying L plates when he crashed just after 1am last February 26.
He was given the keys to a vehicle, which did not belong to him, by another man and decided to drive despite being warned not to. After careering into a wall he ran away from the scene, police said.
