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Geoffrey Bennett & Zosia Eyres

Terrifying dashcam footage shows Subaru driver swerving past bus before head-on crash

A shocking video has captured the moment a driver smashed head-on into a woman's car, leaving her with life-changing injuries.

Jodie Wynne suffered four fractured ribs, severe bruising, a foot broken in three places and broken leg bones after Samuel Tiley crashed into her.

The footage shows Tiley overtaking the car from which the dashcam footage is being filmed, swerving into the path of a bus as he does so.

He then narrowly avoids the bus before careering into Ms Wynne, who was driving in the opposite direction on Bristol Road in Winterbourne.

Tiley's car almost flips over as it balances on the driver's side wheels, before coming to a halt when it drops onto all four wheels.

He was driving at around twice the speed limit when he crashed his Subaru Impreza into the Ford Fiesta.

Tiley crashing into Ms Wynne (Avon and Somerset Constabulary)

An expert calculated he would have been driving at 54-58mph through a 30mph zone, and overtaken at 75-81mph through a 40mph zone.

The 24-year-old, of Longs Drove in Yate, pleaded guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving on February 6, 2018.

This was just a week after Tiley was caught driving at 70mph through a 50mph limit.

Judge James Patrick jailed him for 16 months on Wednesday (August 7) at Bristol Crown Court.

He told Tiley: "You were driving very fast when you should not have been.

"There is a very high degree of harm in this case."

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Tiley was also banned from driving for four years and told to take an extended driving test.

Tabitha Macfarlane, defending, said her client was a man of previous good character who may have been suffering the bereavement of his mum around the time of her birthday.

Miss Macfarlane said: "He doesn't want to drive again.

"He is really sorry.

"He is truly devastated for what he has done.

Ms Wynne said she had been unable to start a new job and now cannot straighten her leg or fully bend her knee.

She declined to comment as she left court.

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