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A pregnant mum-of-two has been jailed for 18 months for running over her sister while more than twice the legal driving limit for cocaine.
A court heard Lisa Bowden, 33, warned her younger sibling Jade that she would kill her just seconds before she mowed her down in her Vauxhall Astra and fractured her thighbone.
Her children, aged 10 and 12, were in the car at the time of the incident outside Beef and Babes gym in Greenhithe, Kent.
Jade Bowden was knocked flying over the bonnet and landed on the busy road, hitting her forehead and narrowly avoiding being struck by a passing vehicle.
Lisa Bowden then drove off, leaving her sister seriously injured and 'terrified' she would die, Maidstone Crown Court in Kent was told.
When arrested, Bowden's drug reading registered 128 microgrammes for the cocaine by-product benzoylecgonine. The legal limit is 50.
She later claimed the positive test result was a consequence of someone spitting in her mouth.
The court was told the sisters were now reconciled and that Jade Bowden, who has made a full recovery, had asked that her statement to the police be retracted.
It also heard that Lisa Boden is now 16 weeks pregnant.
Despite this, a judge said imprisonment was unavoidable.
Jailing her on Wednesday after she had previously admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm, drug-driving, and having no insurance, Judge Oliver Saxby KC told the court she had 'completely lost her temper' that day.
Judge Saxby said: 'The incident was your fault. It was you who had picked the argument, it was you who got angry, it was you who was unable to contain that anger, and it was you who drove at her. She could have died.
'She could easily have also been run over by the other car.
'We have watched the video clip and it's a miracle she wasn't and was just brushed by it.'
Explaining his decision not to suspend the prison term, Judge Saxby said there was no realistic prospect of rehabilitation and custody would not impact her two children, who live with their father.
He told Bowden: 'These offences are so serious that appropriate punishment can only be achieved by immediate custody.
'I can well
