Fatal crash drink driver jailed

The fatal crash happened outside the Coach and Horses public house

A drunk van driver has been jailed for six years after he ploughed into a car which had just crashed, killing two men and a woman inside.

Luke Quinell, 24, of Grafton Street, Portsmouth, Hampshire, pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving while over the drink-drive limit.

The accident happened just before last Christmas on the A27 at Salvington, near Worthing in West Sussex.

Quinell also got a 10-year driving ban at Chichester Crown Court on Thursday.

He was more than twice the drink-drive limit when he hit a Vauxhall Astra on 22 December.

The car had just been involved in a collision with a Honda Accord.

The three occupants of the Astra all died at the scene of the crash.

They were Sharon Hewer, 38, a mother-of-three from Durrington in West Sussex, 37-year-old Clive Hancock, from Billingshurst, also in West Sussex, and Ivor Bingham, 39, from Dorset.

The Honda driver, a 43-year-old man from Devon, was left with serious injuries.

Quinell suffered only minor injuries in the collision.