Overview

• Edward Spencer, 19, was sentenced to two years in youth detention and banned from driving for eight years after admitting to causing three deaths and three serious injuries by careless driving.
• The April 2023 crash occurred when Spencer, a newly qualified driver, lost control of his car at 64 mph, colliding head-on with another vehicle near Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire.
• Social media evidence, including videos of reckless driving and a Snapchat warning from one of the victims, was used in court to highlight Spencer’s habitual poor driving habits.
• Families of the victims and the injured driver have called for graduated driving licences and restrictions for new drivers to prevent similar tragedies.
• Judge Andrew Lockhart KC described the crash as a 'terrible inevitability' caused by Spencer’s excessive speed and failure to heed warnings about his driving behavior.