Drink-driver jailed after crash causes death of mother
Christopher Lockwood, 31, was more than three times the legal limit when his Ford Focus careered into the back of Patricia Hesser-Young's vehicle.
She was travelling to work at the Royal Mail in Swindon when Lockwood's dangerous driving caused her to lose control of her Land Rover Discovery at 5.35am on June 28 last year.
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Hide AdThe 4x4 rolled over, went through a barrier and crashed through trees before coming to rest at the bottom of the embankment near Membury Services on the westbound M4.
Mrs Hesser-Young, of Sonning Common, Reading, suffered severe injuries including a fractured skull, and needed specialist care.
She died more than three months later on October 4 at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. A post-mortem examination found she died from a severe head injury.
Lockwood, formerly of Swindon, and now of Stoke-on-Trent, was on his way home after a night out drinking with friends in Reading.