Alex Swindell, 25, lost control on a bend and hit a tree, killing Jack Hotchkiss, 19
A speeding drink-driver has been jailed after being behind the wheel during a crash which killed his teenage friend. Alex Swindell, 25, was jailed for five years and suspended from driving for nine-and-a-half years following the February smash which claimed the life of 19-year-old Jack Hotchkiss.
"Mr Pattinson says that he was sleeping most of the journey due to the amount he had drunk. He woke up at one point and asked the defendant to stop his vehicle so he could be sick. This was around five-to-10 minutes before the collision. Slater says Pattinson looked to the back of the car to see blood everywhere before calling an ambulance. He then exited the vehicle whilst still on the phone to emergency services with Swindell.
Miss Slater said Mr Hotchkiss was declared dead at the scene and that a post-mortem examination gave a cause of death as a severe head injury. Pattinson suffered a fracture to his left wrist and three fractured vertebrae, and he was provided with a collar for his neck and a wrist splint upon his release from hospital the next day.
"His life was taken years before it should have been as a result of total recklessness and a complete lack of thought for another's life from someone who thought it was okay to drink and drive recklessly with no thought about his passengers and showing no regard for the law when he made the decision to drive."
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