Moment lorry driver high on cannabis lost control of his 44-tonne HGV and crashed into oncoming Mercedes on opposite carriageway - as he's jailed for two years

A driver 'high connected cannabis' collapsed his 44-tonne lorry into oncoming car, earnestly injuring a rider arsenic constabulary opportunity it was 'a miracle' nan 2 survived.

Terrifying dashcam footage shows nan infinitesimal a driver precocious connected cannabis mislaid power of his HGV lorry and crashed into an oncoming car - leaving a rider trapped and fearing for his life.

Anthony Campbell, 55, was almost double nan supplier thrust limit erstwhile his Scania HGV swerved into nan way of a Mercedes connected nan A47 astatine Guyhirn, Cambridgeshire, connected 3 January.

A rider successful nan car, a 38-year-old man, was near trapped successful nan wreckage and suffered superior injuries.

He had to beryllium airlifted to Addenbrooke's Hospital successful Cambridge where he underwent room and admitted that he thought he was going to die.

Police said it was a 'miracle' that some he and nan driver of nan Mercedes - a 33-year-old man who suffered insignificant injuries - survived nan incident.

Campbell, from Glasgow, Scotland, was uninjured aft his lorry ended up connected a writer verge.

Police tested Campbell for narcotics connected nan segment and he was arrested. 

Five hours later, a humor sample was taken which showed his cannabis level was astatine 3..7mcg per litre of blood. The ineligible limit is two.

At Peterborough Crown Court connected Friday (July 12), Campbell was sentenced to 2 years successful situation aft pleading blameworthy to vulnerable driving.

He was besides disqualified from driving for 4 years.

In a unfortunate effect statement, nan rider told nan court: 'When I was trapped successful nan car astatine nan segment of nan crash, I thought I was going to die.

'After my merchandise from infirmary I retrieve seeing lorries diving connected nan roads and I was shouting 'slow down' and grabbing clasp of nan handles successful nan car. This was nan first clip it deed maine really frightened I was pursuing nan accident.

'I can't judge that personification would beryllium truthful stupid arsenic to thrust a 44-tonne lorry pinch narcotics successful their system. The full incident has near maine sad, upset, and angry.

'What he did that time could person easy killed us.'

Meanwhile, constabulary slammed Campbell for 'displaying unbelievable recklessness'.

PC Boris Kahn, from nan Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire's Serious Collision Investigation Unit, said: 'Campbell displayed unbelievable recklessness and ignorance successful getting down nan instrumentality aft smoking cannabis. 

'It is thing short of a occurrence that nan driver and nan rider successful nan Mercedes are still present today.

'While they proceed to retrieve from their injuries, I dream nan victims consciousness a consciousness of justness and closure pursuing this sentence.

'Anyone who drives aft taking forbidden narcotics is putting people's lives astatine consequence and it is wholly unacceptable.'

In February this year, a London Stock Exchange IT head driving a Tesla caused a 100mph motorway clang pinch a caller mother while precocious connected cannabis.

Dashcam footage showed Josselin Herjean, 51, of Hamble, Hampshire, smashing his £50,000 electrical centrifugal into nan backmost of a BMW containing Kirsty Skinner arsenic she returned from infirmary pursuing nan commencement of her daughter.

The clip revealed Herjean swerving astatine precocious velocity from nan mediate lane into nan extracurricular lane earlier ploughing into nan rear of nan achromatic car, sending it into nan cardinal preservation and past into nan aerial connected nan M27 successful Southampton successful October 2022.

The consequence head master was handed a suspended jailhouse condemnation and disqualified from driving for 18 months aft a judge said it was a 'minor miracle' that nary 1 sewage injured successful nan collision.