'I hope idiot driver realises how much he has affected our family'

COURT TOLD OF DEVASTATING IMPACT OF HIT-AND-RUN CRASH ON STEPHEN, 65

- By MARTIN NAYLOR

A GRANDAD had to have part of his right leg amputated and can no longer act as full-time carer for his wife after an "angry" driver caused a crash before fleeing.

Stephen Kerry, of Aspley, now might have to live in a residential centre and is unable to return to the house in which he has lived with his wife, Karen, for 36 years.

The 65-year-old was on his way home from visiting Karen in hospital before she had heart surgery when a van driven by Callum Knott crashed into his vehicle in Valley Road.

The father of two suffered fractures to his shoulder, thigh bone and several ribs, as well as chest injuries which required emergency surgery.

The keen fisherman and gardener was placed in an induced coma and kept in the intensive care unit for several weeks.

Nottingham Crown Court that emergency services were called to Valley Road, between Hucknall Road and Nottingham Road, shortly after 8pm on Sunday, September 28 last year, after reports a van and two cars had been involved in a collision.

The van driven by Knott was then involved in a collision with two further vehicles in Wallis Street and at the junction of Arnold Road and Queensberry Street.