A mobile restaurant business owner failed to stop for other traffic at a junction in Perthshire and rammed his vehicle into the side of another leaving its driver trapped in the wreckage with a perforated lung.
Samuel Turcu-Georgescu smashed into the other car on the A94 Coupar Angus to Perth road at a crossroads near Campmuir after apparently failing to observe a stop sign prompting him to give way to other traffic.
Perth Sheriff Court heard his car span 180 degrees over the road after colliding with the other car with such force the air bags went off and the driver was left trapped inside behind the remains of a door.