Horror moment driver smashes into pedestrian and hurls him 20ft over garden wall before brawl

WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: Footage from a adjacent roadworthy sweeper captured the shocking infinitesimal a car ploughs into a antheral sending him cartwheeling implicit a plot partition - successful an incidental that saw the operator sentenced to 9 years

This is the horrifying infinitesimal a pedestrian was launched 20ft into the aerial aft being slammed into by a speeding car.

Jack Kent was flung implicit a plot partition by the VW, landing face-first successful a plot – each of which was caught successful shocking footage gathered by a camera connected a roadworthy sweeper. He tin beryllium seen going cartwheeling done the air, flying implicit a ceramic partition and disappearing retired of show arsenic the dark-coloured car mounts the kerb and comes to a stop.

The operator of the car, Leon Fowler, past exited the conveyance and began attacking the antheral Jack had been lasting with, Ross Whitehouse. Last period Fowler, 25, appeared successful Bournemouth Crown Court wherever helium was sentenced to 9 years successful custody for causing GBH with intent and unsafe driving.

Jack survived the slam, which occurred astatine astir 8.30pm connected July 16, and was successful tribunal to spot the verdict. Following the smash, helium was placed successful an induced coma and was successful intensive attraction for 2 weeks with a encephalon wounded – helium besides had to acquisition reconstructive country connected parts of his caput and near arm. He says helium has nary recollection of the incidental successful Weymouth, Dorset.

The astonishing footage collected by the roadworthy sweeper was shown to a shocked courtroom. Speaking to The Sun, Jack said: “Watching the footage was horrible, erstwhile I saw it I conscionable thought 'wow, I'm fortunate to beryllium alive'".

The dad-of-one says helium laic successful the plot choking connected his ain humor and said his chemoreceptor was flattened portion his look looked similar he’d been deed “with a shovel”.

Rebuilding enactment was undergone connected his cheekbones which were “completely shattered” and helium has been near with a metallic nose. He besides claimed that doctors astatine the infirmary didn’t deliberation helium would past oregon could beryllium near “a vegetable”.

Touchingly, helium present believes that helium woke up for his daughter’s involvement and feels similar a higher powerfulness whitethorn person been watching implicit him, fixed the improbability of surviving a deed from a car going that fast. He is besides astonished helium didn’t endure immoderate limb injuries and is inactive capable to walk. Despite present trying to determination connected with his life, Jack admitted that the incidental volition “be with maine for the remainder of my life”.

While helium was gladsome to beryllium capable to beryllium successful tribunal to spot the verdict, helium admitted the infinitesimal the footage was shown was hard for his mum. In court, Ruba Huleihel, prosecuting, said: "Leon Fowler utilized his car arsenic a highly unsafe limb and deliberately drove astatine velocity into Mr Kent.”

Jonathan Underhill, defending, said: "What Mr Fowler did connected that time is arsenic inexplicable arsenic it is inexcusable.

"There was immoderate past betwixt Mr Fowler and these 2 gentlemen, but it does not excuse what helium did.”

Fowler was besides disqualified from driving for six and fractional years by Judge William Mousley, who said: "For reasons that stay unclear, you decided to deliberately thrust your car astatine velocity into 2 pedestrians who you knew with whom you look to person a problem.

"They were unaware of the impending collision and had nary accidental of avoiding what took place.” A 10-year restraining bid was besides placed preventing Fowler from contacting Jack oregon his chap unfortunate Mr Whitehouse.