Drink driver lied at crash scene after causing death of carer

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Drink driver lied at crash scene after causing death of carer
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He was branded a danger to the public

A drink driver killed a young carer in an accident after doing the same thing to a passenger in his car 14 years ago. for offences of driving.

Later, in his Audi Q7, he veered into Jessica's lane in Southwell Road, Oxton, on January 19 this year, hitting her car head-on, and causing multiple injuries. She died at the scene.Plimmer, 35, of Raylawn Street, Mansfield, then lied at the scene to witnesses he was not the driver of the Audi, as he was disqualified from driving on December 2, 2021, for 20 months, after he was caught drink-driving.

The nurse said the road was "quite bendy", with no artificial light. She drove at 40mph in a 50 mph limit and came across the collision. Plimmer told her he did not know what had happened and "my mate was driving and he just ran off". A blood sample was back-calculated, and showed he had 100 milligrams of alcohol in blood, with 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood being the limit.

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