‘Boy Racer’ who bragged his BMW was like ‘Millennium Falcon’ caused catastrophic injuries in crash
dailyrecord.co.ukA tearaway “boy racer” who was boasting to friends and “driving like a maniac” at 80mph was to blame for a horrific accident that left a motorcyclist with catastrophic injuries that wrecked his life.
Joseph Chapman had just “dramatically improved” the speed of his already powerful BMW 335d car the same day and had bragged that it was now like the very fast Millennium Falcon starship from Star Wars.
It was an “accident waiting to happen” when he raced along a dual carriageway at such a “breathtakingly dangerous speed” that he could not avoid causing a collision that left the motorcyclist with lifelong serious problems, a court heard.
Chapman, 22, confessed to causing serious injury by dangerous driving on January 30 last year and failing to supply police with the PIN to his phone.
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