Drink-driver jailed for crash that left young lives in ruins

THEN-TEENAGER SHOWED NO INTEREST IN VICTIMS AT TIME OF HIGH-SPEED COLLISION

- By MARTIN NAYLOR

A TEENAGE drink-driver was filmed by his passenger travelling between 120mph and 130mph before causing a collision which left three people with life-changing injuries.

Nottingham Crown Court heard Muhammad Asim was racing at between 84mph and 92mph when he jumped a red light on the A453 at Clifton and ploughed into a car turning into Nottingham Trent University campus.

The then 19-year-old, of Basford, then left the scene and was not found for two hours. When he was spoken to in the police station he "showed no emotion and did not once ask how the other people involved were".

Asim's passenger suffered a serious brain injury and is still in a specialist unit. She can only communicate through her eyes and is being fed by a tube.

Two of the three students in the car he collided with suffered spinal fractures among other serious injuries.

Jailing Asim for three years and nine months, Judge Stuart Rafferty KC said: "Young men and indeed older men make the mistake of presuming the roads belong to them and they can drive at whatever speed they like and in whatever way they choose.

"They then treat anyone who gets in their way as an irritating obstruction. You said you'd had one or two whiskies, I don't believe that.