DIABOLICAL DRIVING
BOY RACERS ESCAPE JAIL AFTER TAXI DRIVER HORROR CRASH NEAR NEWPORT
Two men have avoided immediate jail time after a high-speed race left a cabbie with serious injuries. Adam Ali, 21, and Connor Llewellyn-Sinclair, 22, both from Newport, pleaded guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving at Cardiff Crown Court on 29 July. Shocking footage of the October 2022 crash was released following sentencing. The pair were racing along the A4810 dual carriageway in Magor when they collided with a taxi. The cab, which was not
involved in the initial race, was caught in the crossfire. The driver sustained significant injuries. Despite the severity of the crash,
Ali and Llewellyn-Sinclair were handed two-year suspended jail sentences and disqualified from driving for two years. Police have condemned the pair’s actions, with PC Matthew Davies describing the incident as a “near miss”. He added: “The victim will live with the impact of their reckless decisions for many years to come and our thoughts remain with them as they recover from the serious injuries sustained in the collision.”
18 YEARS’ JAIL FOR DRUNK DRIVER WHO KILLED WORCESTER CABBIE AND HER PASSENGERS
A court heard harrowing details of the moment a drink-driving uninsured motorist killed three people in a 90mph crash. Joe-Lewis Tyler, 34, was jailed for 18 years at Worcester Crown Court on 5 August, for causing the deaths of taxi driver Courtney Hemming, 26, her passenger Claire Adkins, 39, and six-year-old Leo Painter. The court heard Tyler had con- sumed multiple pints of lager and shots before getting behind the wheel of a borrowed BMW on the afternoon of February 22. He had been asked to leave the pub for being disruptive. Driving at speeds of up to 90mph, in wet conditions, Tyler lost control of the BMW and smashed into the Ford Mondeo PHV as it pulled out of a school on the A44 Spetchley Road in Worcester. The taxi driver, mother-of-one Ms Hemming, 26, had just collected Leo from school with Ms Adkins.
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She had “no time to react” as the BMW collided with the driver’s side of her car as she pulled out of the school onto the 50mph road. The court heard that Tyler, had been involved in two near-miss incidents in the minutes before the fatal crash. A post-collision analysis revealed Tyler was more than twice the legal drink-drive limit and had also taken cocaine and cannabis. Judge James Burbidge KC said Ms Hemming would not have been able to anticipate that the BMW would have been going at speeds of around 90mph on a day where it was raining and some roads had been left partially flooded. The judge branded Tyler’s driving “atrocious” and said he had shown a “cavalier” attitude to safety.
Both Ms Hemming and mother-of- three Mrs Adkins, who were related, were killed instantly in the crash, while Leo died shortly after being taken to hospital. Tyler and his passenger were taken to the hospital with serious injuries, with Tyler suffering fractures to his shin and ankle and having to undergo spinal surgery. The court heard emotional victim impact statements from the families. Courtney was getting married, her son has been left without a mother, as have Claire’s three lads. Tyler pleaded guilty to three counts of causing death by dangerous driving, one count of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and three counts of causing death while uninsured. He was disqualified from driving for 17 years and must take an extended retest before he can drive again.
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