Jail for ‘reckless’ lorry driver over drugs limit

A lorry driver jailed after losing control and crashing into an oncoming car when he was almost double the drug-drive limit “displayed unbelievable recklessness”, police have said.

Anthony Campbell, 55, was driving a 44-tonne Scania HGV when he swerved into the path of a Mercedes on the A47 at Guyhirn, near Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, on 3 January.

Campbell, of Culross Place, East Kilbride, Glasgow, was given a two-year jail term last week after admitting causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

Tests showed he had been smoking cannabis, and a police officer involved in the crash investigation said it was a “miracle” the two occupants of the Mercedes survived.