A lying driver who left a Spalding man with traumatic injuries just two weeks after his wedding has been jailed for three years.
Dominici Johnson, 47, is thought to have fallen asleep at the wheel of his Vauxhall Movano van while driving on the A141 towards March in June 2023.
He drifted into the other carriageway and hit a Suzuki Vitara, before ending up around 100 feet away in a field.
The Suzuki driver, a 56-year-old man from Spalding, was cut free from his car and taken to hospital with life threatening injuries.
Johnson, pictured top right, suffered minor injuries and blamed the Suzuki driver for the crash during a police interview.
But both vehicles were examined and the airbag data module in his van showed he had been steering 40 degrees to the right and accelerated to 50mph prior to impact.
The Spalding driver suffered a traumatic brain injury and spent two months in hospital after the crash. He had numerous fractures of the skull, as well as limb, pelvis, ribs and spinal fractures.
He told police that it had changed his life and he now needs a lot of care, walks with a frame and struggles to complrete normal day-to-day activities. He has not worked since the crash.
Johnson was jailed for three years and two months at Peterborough Crown Court on Friday (31) and was also banned from driving for four years and seven months.
He continuously denied a charge of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, but a jury took less than an hour to find him guilty at a trial at the same court in August.
“The impact of this collision cannot be underestimated. In a victim impact statement considered by the court he explains how his life has been permanently altered by the crash, including losing his job, having surgery and suffering from continuous pain, anxiety PTSD and tinnitus, Having got married two weeks before the collision he also never got to enjoy a honeymoon,” said DC Nial Hamshere of the BCH Serious Collision Investigation Unit after the case.
In a second police interview Johnson, of New Malden, London, again blamed the other driver and denied the charge of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
A forensic investigator noted gouge marks in the road to suggest Johnson’s van had crossed the carriageway and the crash was reconstructed from the marks left and it showed the Movano was on the wrong side of the road at the point of impact.
Enquiries at a hotel in Coventry also showed Johnson could have only had a maximum of just over four hours sleep the night before the crash.
