A young mum who got behind the wheel after she had been out drinking crashed her car into a tree and died. Sarah Smith had been celebrating passing her exams to become a paramedic earlier in the evening.
The army veteran, 32, was “significantly intoxicated” when she got into her Audi A1 on the night of October 14 last year, an inquest heard. She lost control of her car as she drove around the right-hand bend in West Paddock, Leyland, heading in the direction of Tesco, and across a grassed area before smashing into a tree.
Sarah was taken by ambulance to Royal Preston Hospital after firefighters cut her from her car, LancsLive reports. Surgeons operated on her to try and repair her heavily damaged liver, however she was pronounced dead the next day.
