[A] MAN has admitted that his dangerous driving left a fellow motorist badly hurt after a head-on smash on a key Cumbrian road.
Chey Clark, 24, was told by a judge he could now receive a prison sentence for causing serious injury to HGV driver Mark Bowcock on February 9 last year.
The A66 trans-Pennine route was closed for around six hours at Brougham, near Penrith, following a collision which involved Clark’s Vauxhall Vivaro van and Mr Bowcock’s HGV. This occurred in darkness at around 6-10am.
At Carlisle Crown Court today (TUES), Clark admitted causing serious injury to Mr Bowcock – aged in his 50s, of Alvaston, Derby – by driving the van dangerously.
Recorder Julie Clemitson adjourned the case, asking for both a probation service assessment on Clark and up-to-date medical information about the victim’s condition. Mr Bowcock was said by police at the time to have sustained serious chest injuries.
Clark, of Coronation Drive, South Normanton, Alfreton, Derbyshire, was granted bail. But Recorder Clemitson warned him that “all options”, including a prison term, would be open at his sentencing hearing on January 30.
Clark was handed an interim driving ban, and told that the exact length of the disqualification would be fixed on the day of sentence.
