A drunk driver smashed into a pregnant woman's car before hitting her daughter as he tried to speed away from the scene.
Connor Eynon had drunk alcohol and taken cocaine before getting into his mum's white Peugeot 208 on February. While travelling along the A487 in Bontnewyddon, the 24-year-old drove into the back of a Vauxhall Corsa at a set of temporary traffic lights, Wales Online reports.
The crash caused the Corsa driver, who was pregnant at the time, to hurt her stomach on the steering wheel. The motorist's daughter then got out the car and approached Eyon, however he 'appeared to panic' and knocked her to the ground before driving off. She was struck on her right hand side and suffered minor bruising and whiplash, a court heard.
In one of the collisions, the Peugeot's number plate had fallen off. When police were called, they traced the registered keeper - who was Eynon's mother - and went to her house.
Eynon, of Bontnewydd, answered the door, saying: "I know what this is about. It's my fault." Police found he had consumed alcohol and a cocaine-based drug. He was nearly twice the drink drive limit and one and a half times over the limit for drug driving.
Gareth Parry, defending, said Eynon's actions were out of character and he was "immediately remorseful". He left the scene but he didn't leave the house, and he admitted his offences.
Eynon pleaded guilty to eight motoring offences including dangerous driving and aggravated vehicle taking.
A judge at Caernarfon Crown Court decided by a "narrow margin" that he did not need to go straight to prison. Instead, he gave Eynon a 12-month jail term suspended for 18 months for each of the two main offences, to run concurrently. He also ordered him to do 200 hours of unpaid work.
The judge His Honour Timothy Petts told the defendant he had drunk alcohol and taken drugs then taken the "completely stupid" decision to drive.
"Unsurprisingly, consequences followed. You caused injury to a pregnant woman and, when one of the passengers got out to challenge you, you drove off and knocked that passenger over," he said.
Eynon also pleaded guilty to drink driving, drug driving, driving not in accordance with a licence or third party insurance, failing to stop at the scene of an accident and failing to report an accident. The judge also ordered Eynon to do 30 days of rehabilitation activity and disqualified him from driving for three years. He must then take an extended test.
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