Car splinters into pieces after flipping during road rage crash
This is the moment a car was sent flying at 160km/h during a road rage incident on a busy motorway.
Two motorists, one in a blue Mini and the other in a Ford Mondeo, are shown to be repeatedly undertaking and tailgating each other on the eastbound carriageway of the M4, near Port Talbot, Wales, in June 2018.
The drivers are seemingly going head-to-head in footage shot on a police dashcam.
But the Mini dramatically speeds off to the left bank of the motorway before hitting a barrier and flipping on its front end.
The car overturns and spins across the busy motorway before splintering into pieces.
Police say it was “sheer luck” that neither driver was seriously injured in the crash.
The drivers involved were convicted of dangerous driving on Friday at Cardiff Crown Court.
Evidence provided to the court proved how Wayne Sebury and Paul Carpenter were driving at speeds of up to 165km/h before the crash took place.
Carpenter, 44, and Wayne Sebury, 59, denied any wrongdoing but later pleaded guilty to dangerous driving.
Carpenter was sentenced to six months in prison and disqualified from driving for 18 months at Cardiff Crown Court.
Meanwhile, Sebury was handed an 18-month community order and disqualified from driving for 12 months, as well as being ordered to complete 150 hours of unpaid community work.
“This incident was a classic case of road rage where two motorists have driven dangerously, at high speeds, undertaking, tailgating and flashing their lights,” PC Kathryn Matthews of the South Wales Police Roads Policing Unit said.
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“It is sheer luck that nobody was killed or seriously injured and the dashcam footage of the incident sends out a clear message about the consequences of driving in such an irresponsible manner.”
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