Driver tried to drag critically injured partner's body through a window before bolting after horror crash

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A driver climbed over his partner as she lay in the passenger seat with life-threatening injuries to escape from the scene of a crash.

Craig Hirtle then returned later to try drag her injured body through a window before fleeing again, a court heard. The 44-year-old crashed the Vauxhall Corsa into another car after speeding through a red light in south Manchester.

The driver, who had been banned from the roads, went through the light that had been red for 13 seconds at the junction between Nell Lane and Mauldeth Road West in Chorlton on 24 September 2020.

He was arrested by police six days later in another high-speed chase, Manchester Crown Court heard. Hirtle, who pleaded guilty to one count of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and one count of dangerous driving, was jailed for three years by Judge Patrick Field KC who called his actions a 'flagrant breach of the rules of the road'. READ MORE: Dad thirteen times the drug-driving limit killed his son, 8, after BMW aquaplaned on M60 Prosecuting, Thomas Worsfold said it was 'fortunate that no fatalities occurred' after Hirtle, of no fixed abode, collided with a Mercedes A class at the junction, causing injuries to both his passenger and the driver of the other vehicle.