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- See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source This is the terrifying moment a car ploughed head-on into another vehicle, leaving the driver with horrific injuries including a broken back. asserted

car → see → back

Jonah Neal, a 19-year-old student, skidded out of control after going too fast round a bend on the A44 near Aberystwyth on his way to a football match. asserted

Neal → skid → match

Dashcam footage shows his Nissan Leaf shooting round a bend behind two motorbikes, and then veering wildly to the left and right. asserted

Leaf → show → left

He then barrels into the opposite carriageway, before smashing into the approaching vehicle at speed. asserted

He → barrel → speed

The other driver was airlifted to hospital having suffered a broken pelvis, breastbone, ankle, vertebrae and ribs. He also had to have five metal plates inserted into an open fracture in his leg. asserted

plates → airlift → leg

Prosecutor Harry Dickens said conditions at the time of the high-speed smash were 'dark with light rain'. asserted

conditions → say → rain

Swansea Crown Court heard the victim was driving home from work when he saw two motorbikes coming from the other direction. asserted

motorbikes → hear → direction

Jonah Neal, 19, was driving his Nissan Leaf to a football match when he lost control after taking a bend His car barreled over the central markings and into the oncoming lane He smashed head-on into another car, leaving the driver with serious injuries including a broken back Moments later he saw the Nissan Leaf closely behind the bikes before it swerved across the road and into his car. The next thing he remembered was waking in the wrecked vehicle with an airbag and a cloud of dust around him, before Neal appeared at his window to apologise. asserted

Neal → drive → window

Mr Dickens said it was 'good fortune and nothing else' that the victim's injuries had not been worse. asserted

injuries → say → ?

The crash happened in November 2025 - thirteen months after Neal had passed his driving test. asserted

Neal → happen → test

Dean Pulling, for Neal, said he had been going 'faster than he realised' when he came up behind two motorbikes and 'hit the brakes hard'. asserted

he → say → brakes

He said the crash was caused more by 'inexperience' than 'irresponsibility', and that a more experienced driver 'may have applied the brakes in a different manner'. uncertain

driver → say → manner

Mr Pulling said Neal had intended to study at Maastricht University but the pending case had forced him to instead accept a place to study economics at Cardiff University. asserted

case → say → University

After admitting causing serious injury by dangerous driving, Neal was sentenced to 12 months' detention in a young offenders' institution, suspended for 12 months, and ordered to complete 150 hours of unpaid work. He was banned from driving for two years and must pass an extended test before he can regain a licence. asserted

he → admit → licence

Terrifying moment out-of-control car smashes into driver in head-on crash after hurtling around bend

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