Hull man escapes jail after injuring passengers in car crash…
A Hull driver has narrowly escaped prison after he crashed his car and injured four passengers while nearly seven times over the drug driving limit. George Longhorn, 26, was working in northern Scotland when he decided to take four friends on a sightseeing tour. But he crashed his car into a tree near Castletown in Caithness on December 10, 2021 having taken cocaine some hours before. The civil engineer admitted charges of dangerous driving and drug driving, on indictment, at Wick Sheriff Court on Tuesday, the John O’Groat Journal and Caithness Courier reports. Read more:Driver's expensive decision to throw McDonald's wrappers from car window Longhorn, of Hathersage Road, Mount Pleasant in Hull, who was working in Caithness at the time, had taken four friends with him on a sightseeing trip when his BMW left the road. The passengers sustained serious but not life-threatening injuries and two of them had to be freed from the vehicle by firemen. Longhorn provided a positive breath test for benzoylecgonine – evidence of cocaine use – with a level of 359mg in his blood which is seven times the l
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