Two men to be sentenced for dangerous driving after car smashed into Cannock DFS store
Two men will be sentenced next month after admitting dangerous driving offences – following a crash which saw a car smash into a Staffordshire store.
The incident saw a VW Scirocco leave the road at Longford Island, in Cannock, and strike the front of a nearby DFS store at around 3.45am on May 24, 2019.
A Newton hearing, which took place at Stafford Crown Court on Wednesday, March 10, determined that 57-year-old Mark Cole and 27-year-old Jordan Powers had been racing along the A5 before Powers' car left the road.
Powers, of Victor Street, in Pelsall, was left with life-changing injures, alongside his 34-year-old passenger. He pleaded guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving at a magistrates hearing in September.
Cole, of Banbury Road, in Cannock, had initially pleaded not guilty to dangerous driving – but changed his plea at a hearing on February 5.
A Newton hearing, which determines the facts of a case, was called after Cole disputed the evidence put forward by the prosecution as to why he had been driving the way he had.
Judge Gosling also determined that both men did not know each other, despite working for the same company.
They will both be sentenced at Stafford Crown Court on April 21.
