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Phone Gambler's 71mph Crash Injures Pregnant Family
25 Feb
Summary
- Officer drove 71mph while gambling, colliding with a family.
- Pregnant woman had emergency C-section; baby hospitalized.
- Family dog required emergency spinal surgery after the crash.
A 71mph collision, caused by a prison officer gambling on his phone, has left a young family with life-altering injuries. Jack Bentley, 30, was driving on the A50 in Derby when his Ford Focus struck a Nissan X-Trail in stationary traffic. The occupants, a pregnant woman, her partner, and their two children, were travelling home to Yorkshire.
The impact necessitated an emergency C-section for the woman at 33 weeks gestation. Her newborn daughter, weighing just four pounds, required intensive care for several weeks. The collision also resulted in a fractured ankle for one of the children and spinal surgery for the family dog.
