A driver who spent the night drinking before getting behind the wheel after less than five hours sleep crashed head-on into a car being driven by a heavily-pregnant woman, a court has heard. Rhodri Rees was speeding and on the wrong side of the road when he slammed into the oncoming car as he overtook a slower vehicle in front of him on a bend.
Both the defendant and the mum-to-be were trapped in their cars and had to be cut out by firefighters. The woman suffered multiple and complex fractures to the bones in her feet and ankles in the crash and required a number of operations but her unborn baby was unharmed.
Swansea Crown Court heard the incident happened on the road between Llanelli and Cross Hands on the morning of December 11, 2020, while the victim was driving to work in her Vauxhall Astra. Dean Pulling, prosecuting, said that at 7.20am the woman was approaching a bend on a 40mph stretch of the road when she was confronted by the headlights of a Citroen car coming straight towards her on her side of the road. He said there was a "massive" impact as the cars collided head-on and both drivers were left trapped in their cars.
