Poole drug driver jailed after causing serious crash
22 year old Tyler Cornish has also been banned from driving
A 22 year old man from Poole has been jailed after admitting causing a serious crash, after having taken cocaine.
Tyler Cornish, from Cinnamon Lane, has been sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court, to three years in prison, for causing serious injury by dangerous driving and two counts of drug driving.
He's also been disqualified from getting behind the wheel for three years, to begin when he's released from custody.
What happened?
Cornish was driving three people from Bournemouth to Poole in the early hours of 21st November 2021.
He was driving erratically and his passengers asked him to slow down, before the car failed to get around the Tower Park roundabout and collided with the central reservation.
Cornish and two of the passengers suffered only minor injuries.
But an 18 year old woman sustained multiple fractures to her spine, fractures to her skull, a bleed on the brain, a fractured jaw, fractured ribs and bruising to her lungs.
A blood sample taken from Cornish when he was arrested at the scene found he had cocaine in his system.
He had 32 micrograms of cocaine present per litre of blood, which is above the specific limit of 10 micrograms per litre of blood; and 800 micrograms of benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine, per litre of blood, when the legal limit is 50 micrograms per litre of blood.
Police Constable Craig Jeffery, of the traffic unit, said:
“Tyler Cornish’s reckless decision to get behind the wheel while under the influence of drugs resulted in one of his passengers sustaining serious injuries that are likely to have a lasting impact.
“We see all too often the devastating consequences of motorists such as Cornish who drive while impaired through drink or drugs and we are determined to ensure those who pose a risk to themselves and other road users in this way are prosecuted and held to account.
“The message needs to get across that there is absolutely no excuse for driving while under the influence and we will take robust action against those who do so.”