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Driver inhaled gas before death crash
Birmingham Mail
|September 02, 2025
14-YEAR SENTENCE FOR DANGEROUS DRIVING AFTER GRANDMA KILLED
A DANGEROUS driver who inhaled balloons filled with nitrous oxide gas has been jailed for almost 15 years for killing a 'kind and compassionate' Midland grandmother in a crash.
Helen Klich had retired from the NHS just six days before her death on December 21, 2023.
The 67-year-old was a passenger in a Kia which flipped onto its roof after being hit by a black BMW being driven by Stephen Smart on the A5 in Cannock.
Helen, a mother-of-two and grandmother-of-four, suffered catastrophic injuries and died at the scene.
This story is from the September 02, 2025 edition of Birmingham Mail.
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