CCTV footage shows drug-driver hitting motorcyclists

This was the moment a drug-driver seriously injured a couple riding on a motorcycle.

Mathew Bell, 49, a former window cleaner for King Charles, has been jailed for 30 months after causing life-changing injuries to Richard and Alison Amner as he overtook a van on a bend.

The couple, 58 and 55, had been enjoying a ride on their Yamaha in Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, in July.

Ms Amner was thrown eight feet (2.4m) in the air onto a garden wall as he sped on the wrong side of the road.

Mr Amner, among other injuries, suffered a triple open fracture of his thigh bone.

After Bell was arrested in July, he tested positive for cannabis and cocaine.

Bell, of Ferryside, Carmarthenshire, admitted drug-driving, two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and driving with neither a licence nor insurance.

In 2008 it was reported his firm Inside Out was contracted to clean the windows of the then Prince of Wales.

Footage supplied by the Crown Prosecution Service.

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