A DRUNK driver has been jailed after seriously injuring a man in a crash near Worcester city centre.
Justin Hodgin, 52, had been driving an uninsured Range Rover when he crashed into pedestrian Andrew Hurn on Upper Tything.
At the time of the crash, West Mercia Police said a pedestrian was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham with “life changing but not life threatening” injuries.
Hodgin, of Church Road in Pelsall, near Walsall, then failed to stop and did not report the crash.
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He was later arrested and a breathalyser test showed him to be over the legal alcohol limit.
On Wednesday (May 6), he pleaded guilty at Kidderminster Magistrates’ Court to causing serious injury by careless driving, failing to stop after an accident, failing to report an accident and drink driving.
The offence was considered serious enough for imprisonment due to Hodgin’s “flagrant disregard for people and their property”, the seriousness of the victim’s injuries, the impact that his lack of insurance had on the victim and the fact that the crash took place outside a school, namely RGS Worcester.
He was jailed for 40 weeks, disqualified from driving for three years and 140 days and ordered to pay a £187 surcharge.