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Drink driver gets 2 years for causing death of passenger
Birmingham Post
|April 24, 2025
A DRINK driver who killed a man after careering off a road in Warwickshire has been jailed.
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Chloe Bannister (pictured), of Chaytor Drive, Nuneaton, was driving a Mercedes in Coppice Lane in Middleton, between Sutton Coldfield and Tamworth, on November 15, 2023.
She failed to round a bend in the road and crashed into a fence in a field at around 10.30pm.
This story is from the April 24, 2025 edition of Birmingham Post.
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