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A junior doctor who 'fell asleep' at the wheel after a 12-hour shift at a hospital and ploughed into a mother and her two children at a zebra crossing has been jailed for more than two years.
James Celaire, 25, struck a woman and her two sons, aged four and six, as they waited to cross Hudson Avenue, Great Horton, Bradford, on their way to school on December 9, 2020.
Celaire told police at the scene that he shouldn't have driven home as his 'eyes were going' and should have stayed in staff accommodation at Bradford Royal Infirmary.
He also ploughed into another woman, Yasmin Kauser, who was waiting at the crossing and flung her into a tree, just minutes after she had dropped her daughter off at school.
One of the women, who can't be named for legal reasons, had to have her leg amputated after the accident and all of the other three victims suffered serious fractures.
Celaire, who pleaded guilty to four offences of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, was yesterday jailed for two years and four months.
James Celaire, 25, struck a woman and her two sons, aged four and six, as they waited to cross Hudson Avenue (pictured), Great Horton, Bradford, on their way to school on December 9, 2020
Bradford Crown Court heard how Celaire was driving home from a 12-hour night shift when he left a line of cars and accelerated on the wrong side of the road.
Celaire's barrister Sarah Barlow said it was 'overwhelmingly likely' that he had briefly fallen asleep after finishing his shift.
Prosecutor Chloe Fairley said that one of the mothers thought the Suzuki driver was 'an impatient bad boy racer' and cried out for the children after she had been hit.
One of the women sustained life-changing injuries, including multiple facial fractures and a limb-threatening injury to her left leg.
It was broken at the knee
