🚨Watch this. Drug driver Arron Straughair, 36, ploughed a Transit van into a family home in Easington Lane, Sunderland. He had a cocaine breakdown product in his system and no insurance.
A grandad was knocked off his feet in his own living room. His granddaughter usually plays in the corner the van came through. Repairs are estimated at up to £90,000, and the family had to move out.
He pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, drug driving and driving with no insurance.
His sentence was 16 months, suspended for two years, with probation and a four-year driving ban. The judge cited his job, his family and his "good prospect of rehabilitation".
She also said "lives are shattered every single day" by bad drivers. This family's nearly was, and he's still going home.
I've knocked on doors after crashes like this. Suspended sentences don't stop the next one.