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Gareth Crickmer

Gateshead man drove head on into another car while drunk at the wheel

An ex-Royal Mail man who drove head on into another car while drunk at the wheel has been spared jail.

Andrew Coleman, 52, caused no injury other than to his memory from his booze session with his dad and subsequent roads’ smash in Gateshead.

He told police he could not remember how much he had drunk and nothing of the accident in Crowhall Lane, Felling, other than banging his head.

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