Killer driver raced at 118mph in 30 zone

GRAN DIED IN HORROR CRASH THAT ALSO LEFT MUM IN HOSPITAL FOR FOUR MONTHS

- ETHAN DAVIES

A DAD was driving at 118mph in a 30 zone just before he killed a grandmother and seriously injured her daughter and grandson when he crashed head-on into them.

Trent Simm, from Rochdale, lost control of his Audi S3 on the A58 and smashed into a Kia driven by Doris ‘Dot’ Bridgehouse, 82.

Next to her was her daughter Amanda Holmes, then 55, and in the rear of the vehicle was her grandson Max, then aged 21.

Such was the force of the horrifying crash on May 13 last year, which police thought to have happened at speeds in excess of 88mph, the wreckage of the Kia was pushed back 25 meters.

When Simm, 25, who also injured a passenger in his own car, was told by Salford University student Max that his mother and grandmother were in the car after the crash, he phoned his mother and said: “I think I have messed up here.” Dot died at the scene due to ‘multiple injuries’, Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard.