Runaway driver caught by DNA on car airbag
13 hours ago Share Save Jenny Casterton Producer, The Crash Detectives Share Save
BBC Investigators examined the crash scene after a man was thrown from the rear seat of a VW Polo
A disqualified driver who ran from the scene of a high-speed crash, leaving one of his passengers severely injured, was caught out when police found his DNA on the car's airbag. Jamie Challis, 24, denied he had been driving a Volkswagen Polo at speeds of up to 70mph (113kmh) before a collision with another car and then a lamppost, which ripped open a rear door and threw a 22-year-old man onto the road. A police investigation, filmed for the Crash Detectives series, revealed that instead of helping him, as well as an injured woman, witnesses heard Ch
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