Video shows sparks flying after drink driver flips car on a motorway

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Video footage captured the moment a drink driver crashed into the back of another car on a motorway, flipping it over and sending it skidding along the fast lane on its roof.

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A man was covered in blood after his car flipped and was sent skidding across a motorway when a drink driver crashed into it. Scraping can be heard in dashcam footage of the incident as the car skids along the road, with smoke and orange sparks pouring from the vehicle. In the footage, an HGV driver shouts, ‘Oh my god. Jesus Christ. That car’s on its roof in front of me’.

Chauhan recorded 104 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath – over the legal limit of 35 micrograms of alcohol – when he was breath tested at the roadside. PC Ben Patten said: ‘This was not a momentary lapse in concentration or an honest mistake, it was a prolonged period of driving at excessive speed, tailgating and undertaking vehicles, all while well over the drink-drive limit.

 

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