Driver over the limit on drink and drugs jailed after leaving man with life-changing injuries in Great Missenden crash

Blood tests showed he was double the drink-drive limit and five times over the drug limit when he overtook and caused the crash Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276

A drink and drug driver has been jailed after leaving a man with life-changing injuries in a crash in Great Missenden. He was trying to overtake a vehicle in the village when he caused a collision that left one person with serious injuries and another with life-changing ones.

Ghanada Boldescu, 35, of Link Walk, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, was sentenced to three years and two months' imprisonment in a hearing at Aylesbury Crown Court on Friday 15 December.

On 6 June, he pleaded guilty to two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving. Thames Valley Police has also confirmed the 35-year-old has been banned from driving for eight years. On 4 June this year, Boldescu was driving recklessly and at high speed along the B485 Frith Hill near Great Missenden when he overtook a car, colliding with a Nissan Leaf that was travelling in the opposite direction.

The driver of the Nissan Leaf, a man in his 30s, sustained life-changing injuries. Thames Valley Police also reports the passenger, a man in his 30s, sustained serious injuries. Police officers took a blood sample from Boldescu in hospital.

He was found to have 169 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood, which is over the prescribed limit of 80, and 421 microgrammes of Benzoylecgonine over the specified limit of 50. Boldescu was arrested the same day and charged two days later.