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Stephanie Wareham

Soldier three times drink-drive limit when he killed ‘amazing father’ in crash

Two people were killed in the crash (PA) - (PA Archive)

A soldier in the British Army was more than three times the drink-drive limit when he crashed head-on at more than 100mph into another car, an inquest has heard.

Lance Corporal Adam Milton, 27, was “wholly responsible” for the high-speed collision in which he and the driver of a Nissan Almera, Wayne Neville, 42, were killed in the early hours of September 7 last year on the A53 in Market Drayton, an inquest at Shropshire Coroners Court heard on Thursday.

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