A dangerous driver who crashed into a tree, causing his passenger friend to suffer a life-changing brain injury, is facing jail. Sagen Bhavsar, 24, was speeding on the wrong side of the road with no headlights on when he almost collided head-on with a taxi. He then swerved into a tree on Knighton Grange Road, Oadby, in the early hours of Thursday October 27, 2016.
It happened in a Land Rover Discovery that Bhavsar had earlier taken without the permission of the owner, Leicester Crown Court was told. A jury of four women and eight men took one hour and six minutes of deliberations to convict Bhavsar unanimously, of causing serious injury to Manjot Singh Mann, by driving dangerously.
Mr Mann, 23, who was trapped and unconscious in the front passenger seat, was freed from the wreckage by the fire and rescue service. Bhavsar denied the allegation, claiming it was an accident and his driving was not to blame because he was forced to swerve to avoid two females who suddenly ran into the road.
