Pregnant girl injured by driver playing behind wheel in crash | News | EUROtoday

Dashcam footage captured the second a driver who was playing on his cellphone crashed into the again of a automotive, inflicting a pregnant girl to enter early labour.

Jack Bentley, 30, of Meadow Way, Derby, has been jailed for 2 years and 4 months after admitting to 2 counts of inflicting severe damage by harmful driving.

Video shared by Derbyshire Police on Wednesday (25 February) exhibits Bentley’s Ford Focus weaving between lanes earlier than smashing into the again of a Nissan X Trail, which was then propelled into the again of one other car final April.

A pregnant passenger suffered a fractured pelvis and was rushed to hospital the place she needed to bear an emergency c-section, giving beginning prematurely and leaving her child in intensive care.

The Nissan’s driver and two different kids had been additionally injured, whereas the household’s pet canine needed to bear emergency surgical procedure.