A smirking danger driver was filmed by his partner drinking alcohol at the wheel moments before smashing into a lamp-post and seriously injuring her.
Dane Wood and his girlfriend were driving to pick up a takeaway when she recorded him in a state of "joyful exuberance" sipping from a gin glass and smiling at the camera. Shortly afterwards he sped through a red light and crashed.
His partner was left slumped in the car and people who came upon the scene thought she was dead. By good fortune, it turned out she only had a broken ankle. As she lay unconscious, Wood posed as a helpful passer-by and denied he had been driving at the time.
