A dental nurse has been banned from driving after she pulled into traffic without stopping and ploughed into a couple.
Horrifying dashcam footage showed Halle Bae Osborne-Holland, 22, turn her car into the major road in Swanley, Kent, instead of stopping at the junction and waiting for a clear entrance.
Christopher Collins, 22, and Rebecca Good, 21, were travelling on a motorbike which crashed into the car and saw the pair propelled up into the air while debris and shattered glass were scattered in the road.
The collision happened in August last year and left the couple seriously injured.
Ms Good, a student, was left stuck under the car until members of the public lifted it away and she was airlifted to a hospital in London for specialist treatment.
The student suffered a fractured thigh bone and had to have splints in her leg. The injury resulted in her having to defer her university course for a year.
Mr Collins was rushed to the same hospital by ambulance and suffered a serious hematoma (a blood clot) in one of his legs which left him unable to work for a significant period of time.
He has undergone three surgeries to drain the pooled blood under his skin.
Halle Bae Osborne-Holland, 22, has been banned from driving after she pulled into traffic without stopping and ploughed into a couple
Horrifying dashcam footage showed the moment the dental nurse sent the pair on the motorbike flying
Osborne-Holland turned her car into the major road in Swanley, Kent instead of stopping at the junction and waiting for a clear entrance
The collision happened in August last year and left the couple seriously injured
KentOnline reported Mr Collins wrote a victim impact statement which was read by the prosecutor at Medway Magistrates’ Court.
He said: ‘I had to have a [month] off work, and I can’t sleep at night.
‘The confidence I gained in the five years I was riding has been taken away in five seconds. I no longer have a bike and feel a prisoner in my own home.’
Victoria Aked, prosecuting, told the court: ‘It’s obvious [ Osborne-Holland] didn’t take a second to stop when she left the forecourt… She didn’t think of anyone; they could be dead today.’
Osborne-Holland admitted two counts of causing serious injury by careless driving.
She has been banned from driving for a year and placed on a 12-month community order, where she will have to do 100 hours of unpaid work.
She was also made to pay a victim surcharge of £114 and £85 court costs.
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