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Jailed driver was not carrying car insurance

03 Oct 2008

A motorist from the north-east sentenced to five years in prison after causing a crash leading to the death of his best friend had not been in possession of car insurance, it has been reported.

The Evening Chronicle reports Daltery Roger Pearson admitted to causing death by dangerous driving, driving whilst under a ban - which had been enforced two months before - driving while drunk and with no insurance.

After driving erratically from Newcastle on the coast road, Mr Pearson crashed, throwing his passenger Dane Naylor from the car through the back window and killing him.

The newspaper reported Judge Brian Forster QC told the accused: "Your driving was aggressive and you created a continuing risk to other road users. Lives have been shattered and at the time Dane's partner was pregnant."

In other news, "yobs" in Malmesbury vandalised a car to such an extent the owner is concerned the respray job needed to repair it will lead to his car insurance company writing it off, according to the Wiltshire and Gloucestershire Standard.