Car that hit and killed two Black Country teens is crushed as family say 'I feel like we can properly begin to grieve'
The families of two Black Country teenagers knocked down and killed by a dangerous driver watched as the car involved was crushed by police today.
Damian and Lynette Corfield were among those in attendance at T L Harvey in Darlaston on Monday to see the heavily modified Nissan Skyline which was driven by Dhiya Al Maamoury on the night their son 19-year-old Ben Corfield and his friend 16-year-old Liberty Charris were hit, as well as Ebonie Parkes and Ethan Kilburn who were left seriously injured, crushed into a cube.
The couple and members of their family were able to see the car, which had had its wheels and engine removed and other decontamination work done, up close, with West Midlands Police officers who had been involved in the case also in attendance.
They gathered almost exactly three years after Al Maamoury, who was 56 and from Solihull at the time of the incident, lost control of the blue and white Nissan Skyline and ploughed into a group of pedestrians who were gathered on the pavement at the side of the A457 Oldbury Road in Oldbury at a suspected 'car cruising' event, at around 11.30pm on November 20, 2022.
Judge Michael Chambers KC had said Al Maamoury’s vehicle was “powerful, loud, noisy and aggressive” as he jailed him for 13 years and six months for one count of causing death by dangerous driving, with a 13-and-a-half year sentence for the second count of causing death by dangerous driving and a 32-month sentence for each count of causing serious injury by dangerous driving to run concurrently, in November 2024.
Prosecutor Michelle Heeley KC told the court the car, which had been imported from Japan around 18 months before the collision, had been modified so the exhaust would spit fire and had a turbo engine fitted.
She said Al Maamoury had been driving at speeds of between 54 and 57mph on the 40mph stretch of road and was “fishtailing” before he lost control completely and ploughed into the group on the pavement.
Arrested at the scene, Al Maamoury claimed he had taken his sons to the meet as they liked to photograph cars and denied speeding, saying the car went to the curb “by itself” and that he was simply on his way home and had made a U-turn at the roundabout.
