Malmesbury: BMW driver banned for three years after crash

The collision happened on the B4042 in August 2023

A man has been disqualified from driving for three years after injuring another driver in a car crash.

Shehryar Hussain, 24, from Milton Keynes, was seen driving at speed before overtaking a number of vehicles near Malmesbury on 9 August last year.

He then collided with a car travelling in the opposite direction, driven by a woman in her 40s from Gloucestershire, who sustained serious hand injuries.

Hussain pleaded guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

'Lucky nobody was killed'

Swindon Crown Court was told that Hussain, of Chasewater Crescent, had been driving at speed in a BMW i4 on the B4042 eastbound out of Malmesbury shortly after 13:00 BST.

As well as the driving ban, he was given a 20 month prison sentence suspended for two years, ordered to complete 150 hours of unpaid work and pay a surcharge of £187.

PC Luke Hobbs, from Wiltshire Police's roads policing unit, said: "Hussain was driving a car which was due to be delivered to a company as part of his employment - he had never driven the car before and was unfamiliar with the stretch of road where he caused this collision.

"His driving fell well below the standard expected of a competent driver and he is lucky that nobody was killed as a result of his actions."