Blackpool high speed BMW crash driver who left three women seriously injured is jailed

The wreckage of the BMW Wood was driving

Three people were seriously hurt in the two car crash in Garstang Road, Blackpool, in August 2018, just past the PlayFootball five-a-side sports complex - leading to a helicopter search.

Dominic Wood, 39, was driving at more than double the speed limit in a BMW M4 before colliding with a Skoda Citigo and Nissan Note cars on the A586, Garstang Road West, Blackpool.

Preston Crown Court heard the BMW was so badly damaged it was left missing a wheel.

Wood, of Newton Drive, Blackpool, and a front seat passenger, fled the scene having suffered only minor injuries, but left three women seriously injured.

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Prosecutors said she has since been diagnosed with PTSD and had to leave her job.

The emergency crews also had to free two Fylde women, Sandra Southern and Angela Fraser, both in their 50s, from the Skoda by cutting the roof off.

Fire crews had to cut two women free from the wreckage of a Skoda

One had a fractured sternum and broken wrist, while the other had broken hand and wrist, cracked rib and muscle damage to her neck, and was diagnosed with PTSD.

The Nissan driver escaped injury.

Garstang Road, which links Grange Park and Layton to Poulton, was closed for more than six hours following the crash, with Blackpool Transport saying its 2C and 6 bus services were temporarily unavailable to get to Grange Park as a result.

Recorder Robert Lazarus imposed a four year disqualification and extended retest.