A STOURPORT lorry driver has been jailed after causing a three-vehicle crash which left one woman with her arm “hanging off”.

Glen Evans' Mercedes truck ploughed into the rear of a stationary vehicle waiting to turn on the A458 near Quatt, Shropshire, pushing it into the path of an oncoming car.

A video camera in the lorry's cab recorded the seconds before the impact, and former soldier Evans, of Princess Way, can be heard listening to loud music on the radio.

Car driver Adele Horton had to be cut free from the wreckage and was flown to hospital, where she remained in intensive care for several days with life-changing injuries.

Miss Horton suffered severe injuries to her right side, described her arm as “hanging off", and part of the other car was impaled on her arm.

Her other injuries included fractures to her pelvis in five places and a broken right leg, lacerations to her leg and stomach and her right elbow was broken, and she needed two major operations.

Her eight-month-old son, Arthur, who was strapped into a child seat, suffered minor injuries and the other car driver Tamir Rochelle was also hurt in the incident in October, 2016.

At Shrewsbury Crown Court on Friday, February 24, 51-year-old Evans was jailed for 10 months after admitting causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

Judge Peter Barrie said that as a professional driver Evans should have been paying attention.

He said Evans' initial account of there being problem with the brakes was dismissed by vehicle examiners and the defendant suffered a “loss of attention".

Footage from the lorry was played to the court which shows it continuing at speed towards a pick-up truck at the Mose crossroads.

Loud music is heard and the camera cuts off just before the impact.

Mr Timothy Ashmole, prosecuting, said the collision caused the truck to “cannon” into the path of Miss Horton's Toyota Kia which was coming in the opposite direction.

He said there were warning signs on the approach to the crossroads and there was ample opportunity for Evans to see the truck but he failed to slow down.

Tests were carried out on the lorry's brakes but no faults were found and Evans was not using his mobile phone.

Evans said that he was not distracted by the music from the radio.

The court heard the lorry had a 50mph speed limiter and that Evans had braked 25 metres from the car, taking the impact speed to 37mph.

Evans had a previous conviction for dangerous driving and convictions for excess alcohol and two offences of driving while disqualified between 1999 and 2008.

Mr Peter Arnold, defending, said his client had now faced up to the fact he was to blame for the crash and failed to pay proper attention to the road for 'a matter of seconds'.

He added that Evans had been a professional soldier for eight years serving in Iraq and Afghanistan with distinction.

Evans was also disqualified from driving for three years.