Banned driver's 1am crash has left victim 'living a nightmare'

A MUM of three is “living a nightmare” due to injuries caused by a drink-driver who had also used cocaine.

- By TOM MACK

Despite being uninsured and banned from driving, Liam Rennie, 35, was acting as a chauffeur for a friend who was on a first date with the victim.

All three were in an Audi RS3 when Rennie lost control and ploughed into vehicles at the side of the road.

Leicester Crown Court heard last week how the owner of the vehicles was woken at 1am by an “almighty sound” as Rennie crashed into his VW T-Roc, ramming it into his Ford Transit van, which was shunted several yards down the road.

The VW ploughed through the man’s garden wall, wrecking his garden. The Audi’s engine block came out of the car and burst into flames.

While Rennie and his friend, who were in the front of the Audi, suffered cuts and lacerations, the woman’s internal organs were badly damaged and her breastbone was shattered, along with three bones in her spine.

She had to be cut free from the car by firefighters and was airlifted to University Hospital in Coventry.

A litre of blood had to be pumped out of her chest cavity, and her liver had been shunted from her abdomen into her chest by the force of the impact.