Banned driver jailed for cocaine-fuelled crash injuring two

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 9 Oct, 05:43 · Archive

A banned driver with cocaine in his system caused a head-on crash that left two people seriously injured.

Jack Keep, 26, a banned driver who has never held a valid driving licence, caused a head-on crash on Hatfield Road in Ulting last September whilst attempting a dangerous overtake in the early hours of the morning. Blood tests showed he had a cocaine product in his system at the time.

The driver of the other car suffered a broken spine and has not driven since the crash. A passenger in that vehicle was taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital with a punctured and collapsed lung and a lacerated liver. Emergency surgery required titanium rods to be fitted into his spine.

Keep had been sentenced for failing to provide a roadside specimen just two weeks before the collision. He admitted two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, and one count each of causing serious injury by driving while disqualified, drug driving and driving without insurance. Chelmsford Crown Court sentenced him to three years in prison, to be released on licence after serving a third of that term. His defence mitigated that he was in a difficult place at that time and felt ashamed.

How it is being reported

• Pictured: the drug driver who caused head-on smash which left two in hospitalA banned driver who took cocaine before getting behind the wheel caused a head-on crash which left two people bedbound for weeks.Echo (Basildon) · 9 Oct, 05:00
• Pictured: the drug driver who caused head-on smash which left two in hospitalA banned driver who took cocaine before getting behind the wheel caused a head-on crash which left two people bedbound for weeks.Colchester Gazette · 9 Oct, 05:00

In this story: Jack Keep · Lauren Holmes · James Pallant · Hatfield Road, Ulting · Addenbrooke's Hospital · Chelmsford Crown Court

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