Drink-driver who downed shots before leaving woman with life-changing injuries in head-on horror smash is jailed

A SPEEDING drink-driver who near a pistillate with life-changing injuries and wounded six others successful a head-on fearfulness clang has been jailed.

Gabrielle Dures, 24, had been downing shots earlier she ploughed her Audi A1 into an oncoming Fiat 500 connected a coastal road.

Three women, aged 18, 23 and 24, suffered superior injuries, portion 4 others, aged 22, 26, 22 and 18, sustained insignificant injuries.

One of the women successful the Fiat suffered life-changing injuries successful the May 2023 crash.

Dures sobbed arsenic she was jailed for 32 months aft after pleading blameworthy to causing superior wounded by dangerous driving to the 4 Fiat occupants.

Liverpool Crown Court heard Dures had been astatine the The Lighthouse pub successful Wallasey with friends.

CCTV showed her leaving astatine 9.30pm with a solid successful her hand, which she downed earlier clambering into her Audi to caput to different pub.

Dures told her friends Megan Findlay, Stevie Garrity, Sophie Ford and Renee Hunt that she was "fine to drive" aft 1 of them suggested getting a taxi.

Her passengers begged her to dilatory down arsenic she sped on the coastal roads earlier crashing.

Dures, who runs a tegument care business, was recovered to person 114 micrograms of intoxicant per 100 millilitres of humor - the ineligible bounds being 80mg.

She told officers she had not been drinking but was slurring her words and her eyes were glazed over.

Stevie's limb was truthful severely injured successful the horror that she astir had it amputated.

She besides suffered a fractured limb and 2 spinal fractures.

In a unfortunate interaction statement, Stevie told however she had been "confident, hard working, smiley, organised and had a program for her future" earlier the horror.

She besides explained however she needed 4 six-hour operations and is facing 2 more.

Stevie added: "I americium grieving the idiosyncratic I erstwhile was."

The tribunal was told Stevie was saved by a leader passer-by who stopped her bleeding to death.

Ria Islam, who was the beforehand spot rider successful the Fiat, needed 2 metallic rods inserted successful her breached back.

She told the tribunal she feared she would dice aft becoming trapped successful the wreckage.

In mitigation, Dures expressed her "deepest remorse" for the mishap and the symptom and suffering she caused.

She added: "My determination making that nighttime was a unspeakable mistake and 1 that was wholly retired of quality for me.

"I tin lone ideate the grief and distress that the girls and their families are experiencing and proceed to acquisition and for that I americium whole-heartedly sorry."

At a erstwhile hearing, Dures admitted driving with excess alcohol and was fined £253, ordered to wage £221 successful costs and surcharge.

She was besides banned from driving for 14 months.

Detective Sergeant Simon Duffy from the Serious Collision Investigation Unit said: “This was a devastating collision that resulted successful aggregate casualties and catastrophic injuries. 

"The injuries near victims incapable to work, survey oregon unrecorded their lives arsenic they had done anterior to the collision. 

“This was an wholly avoidable collision which resulted successful the lives of the victims and their families being earnestly impacted. 

"The devastation caused and the condemnation issued to Dures should service arsenic a informing to others who contemplate driving dangerously oregon whilst impaired.  Actions of specified drivers ruin lives and they tally a existent hazard of being sent to prison.