Truck Driver's Cocaine Crash: Lives Forever Changed

0:00On April 2nd, a 61-year-old truck driver named Wayne Burgess plowed into the back of a 70-year-old woman's car on the M-62 near. Burgess services last May 2nd. Dashcam footage captured him saying he thought he'd killed someone right after the smash. He tested positive for cocaine and admitted to causing serious injury by dangerous driving. Moments before, Burgess was on a hands-free call, residing a post-code while fiddling with his sat nav, clearly distracted, amid heavy traffic. His lawyer crushed the woman's car under another truck, too, trapping her inside until firefighters cut her free and rushed her to solve for royals, trauma unit. The grandma of two suffered a fractured eye socket, two broken ribs, deed cuts, and severe facial disfigurement, miraculously surviving with the cord, called a terrible ordeal. In her statement, she described the deafening crash, feeling helpless, and certain she was going to die, with the trauma now wrecking her ability, too, work or care for her grandkids.

1:01Burgess's lawyer explained his longtime drug issues stemmed from undiagnosed ADHD, which he self-medicated with cocaine, but he's since completed. Detox. The judge handed down a 17-month jail term suspended for two years, a 10-year driving ban, 300 hours of unpaid work, 15 days of. Rehab, and a 12-month program, highlighting how one split second laps forever changed two lives.