Woman 'dripping with blood' after distracted mum ran red light and ploughed into Audi

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A woman who was left dripping with blood after a mum failed to notice a red light and smashed into her Audi believed she was going to die.Amanda Griffiths saw a white light before blacking out during the horror incident on September 12 last year.

She suffered serious injuries in the collision and feared she would die a similar death to her brother who was previously killed in a car crash, the Liverpool Echo reports.Liverpool Crown Court heard that Amanda's vehicle went tumbling across Switch Island - rolling twice before crashing into railings and a traffic light - when Susan Blundell became distracted.Blundell, 43, was driving to Flamingo Land with her partner and kids when she became distracted by her sat nav, causing her to flout a red light and crash into the vehicles which were turning right.The traffic light at the major junction had been red for seven seconds when Blundell, of Newfield Close in Thornton, passed through it in her white Vauxhall Mokka.Prosecutor Bernice Campbell told the court Amanda's blue Audi Q4 was travelling towards Formby from St Helens when it was hit.She described seeing a "white flash coming towards her from the corner of her eye" and "wincing" before "everything went black" and she heard the sound of crunching metal.Amanda recalled her head "dripping" with blood and feeling a "squishy mush" when she touched her head in the immediate aftermath of the car.She was still recovering from a broken back suffered in January 2021 but managed to exit the vehicle and move to the grass verge before she was rushed to Aintree Hospital by ambulance.Amanda suffered a head wound that required 13 stitches, whiplash, a cut on her right forearm and bruising to her chest and upper right arm.In a statement read