Mellisa Keilloh said she was 'too drunk' to drive before she crashed while speeding and killed Phoebe Johnson
A young woman from Derby has been jailed for killing her 17-year-old friend during a drink-driving accident after she lost control of her car and smashed into a tree. Derby Crown Court heard Melissa Keilloh told her mother she was 'too drunk' to drive before she got behind the wheel after a party on October 22, 2021.
"For the first seven or eight minutes there was nothing remarkable about your driving but when you ended up in rural areas it is there your foot very clearly hits the accelerator. I have no doubt your state of inebriation, the loud music, the group mentality and the empty roads caused you to drive in the way you did.
The prosecutor said: "Joshua Clapp and his girlfriend Bethany Waite attended, along with the defendant’s cousin Tia Clarke and her friend Phoebe Johnson. They all went back to the address and started chatting and then played drinking games." "She thought it was a group decision to go out to listen to music and drive around – they had often done this without any real reason for it. Phoebe was sat in the middle of the vehicle, her back was not against the rear of the seat and she thinks she was not wearing her seat belt."
Miss Slater told the court the group found Phoebe in the field and the defendant was heard shouting: "She’s here, I’ve killed Phoebe." She went on to say PC Matthew Lacey used dashcam footage to provide a report in relation to the speeds involved and discovered the defendant was driving at around 44mph in a 30mph zone.
However a back-calculation of what she had to drink saw her fail the second test. Phoebe's death was a result of fatal head and neck injuries and she was taken to the intensive care unit at the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham where she passed away at around 5am the same day.
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