Footage has emerged of the moment a drink driver caused a five vehicle crash on the A142 in Cambridgeshire.
Stephen James, 47, of Parkside, Haverhill, was two-and-a-half times the drink drive limit and on his way to work on the A142 at Mepal last year when he overtook a lorry in his Nissan Patrol.
The dash-cam footage shows James attempting the manoeuvre and then colliding into a central traffic island and crashing head on with a Vauxhall Vivaro travelling in the opposite direction. The driver of the van suffered life changing injuries.
His actions also caused the lorry to swerve into the path of the other carriageway and into 60-year-old Keith Howlett's Vauxhall Corsa. Mr Howlett, from Wisbech, died at the scene.
The driver of another Vauxhall Corsa was also caught up in the crash and suffered minor injuries.
Yesterday James was sentenced to six years imprisonment after previously pleading guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
He was disqualified from driving for 10 years and ordered to take an extended retest.
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