The scene in Rawcliffe, York, where James Sparham smashed his car into a family's front room. Photos / North Yorkshire Police
The scene in Rawcliffe, York, where James Sparham smashed his car into a family's front room. Photos / North Yorkshire Police
A couple have slammed a driver on a "motorised pub crawl" who devastated their lives when he crashed into their living room.
James Sparham has been jailed for five years after driving his car at high speed through the living room wall of a family home, the DailyTelegraph reports.
The 29-year-old was almost three times over the drink drive limit when he crashed through the wall of the home owned by David Garnett, 54 and his wife Claire, 50, in the early hours September 3 2017.
The crash, which caused damage totalling £175,000, left David with "life changing injuries" after he was trapped underneath the bonnet of the car, York Crown Court heard.
Two passengers who were also in the vehicle, Sophie Armitage and Nathan Lofthouse, were hospitalised after the crash in York, North Yorks.
Prosecuting, Rachael Landin told the court David and Claire had been sitting in their living room on separate sofas moments before the 3am crash, when she left the room to enter the kitchen and heard a "loud bang".
She then struggled to try to pull her husband from the rubble and their 12-year-old son came downstairs and witnessed the horrific sight of his father trapped, the court heard.
In a moving victim impact statement read on his behalf to the court, Garnett said he thought the car was going to "explode any second".
