A 20-year-old Norwich City football player was sentenced to prison after a horrific automobile accident that injured three persons.
The BMW driven by Flynn Clarke veered into the opposing lane and struck a motorhome.
He received a 12-month prison sentence and a 30-month driving suspension.
A Norwich City football player who lost control of his vehicle after using hippy crack has been sentenced to a year in prison for causing a terrible collision that harmed three people.
In April of last year, Flynn Clarke’s BMW veered into the opposing lanes and collided with a camper, leaving one of the passengers believing he would never be able to walk again.
The professional gamer, 20, was said to have taken laughing gas before losing control and striking a kerb as he exited a roundabout.
The motorhome’s driver also sustained serious injuries in the collision.
Clarke, who has previously represented Scotland’s under-21 team, admitted three counts of seriously injuring someone while driving recklessly.
He also admitted using nitrous oxide, sometimes known as “laughing gas” or “hippy crack,” at Peterborough Crown Court, it was revealed.
There were “unclear and conflicting accounts” as to whether it had been taken at the time of the crash or just before.
Judge Sean Enright sentenced Clarke to a year in prison and imposed a 30-month driving ban, stating that his acts had caused “immense harm.”
Prior to the collision on the A47 in Thorney, Cambridgeshire, witnesses had reportedly characterised the young professional player as driving in a “indecisive manner” and having trouble staying in his lane.
According to testimony given in court, he was driving while his fiancée was in the front passenger seat and three male companions were in the back.
Then Clarke’s BMW lurched into the other lane and collided directly into a camper.
The motorhome’s HGV driver owner said that since the collision, which left him with damaged bones in his ankle, knee, hip, and pelvis, he has been unable to work.
Since then, he has been forced to have numerous surgeries, including a hip replacement.
He further stated in a victim impact statement read in court that his injuries had prevented him from doing activities he had previously taken for granted, such as playing football with his grandson.
The victim claimed: “I have experienced agony and discomfort for the past 16 months.
When I consider this scenario, I get a chill up my spine because of how different the outcomes should have been.
During Clarke’s BMW accident, a 21-year-old passenger testified in court that he had feared he could never walk again after being taken to the hospital with internal bleeding and breaking his collar bone, chest, and vertebrae.
Although Clarke did not intend to cause the collision, the young man continued that he may experience pain for the rest of his life and that he “has to live with the consequences.”
According to Clarke’s defence attorney, Tommy Dominguez KC, the accident happened as a result of a “momentary lapse in concentration” and that Clarke had displayed “significant remorse.”
He claimed, “He has not looked to offer any justifications.”
Additionally, the footballer’s work with Norwich City would undoubtedly end if he were given a prison sentence, the court was informed.
Clarke was also given a 30-month driving restriction by Judge Enright.
After making only a few senior games for Peterborough United, Clarke, a Peterborough, Cambridgeshire native, was signed by Norwich in 2021.
He was joined on loan earlier this month by National League team Dagenham & Redbridge after a brief stint with League Two club Walsall last year.
In a 1-1 tie with Northern Ireland in September of last year, he scored on his debut for Scotland’s U21 team.
Norwich City issued a statement saying they would ‘examine the allegation internally in accordance with its own disciplinary system’.
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