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| Richard Frost: 117mph double death crash driver jailed | Richard Frost: 117mph double death crash driver jailed |
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| A motorist who hit speeds of 117mph before killing two pedestrians when he drove along the verge on the wrong side of the road has been jailed. | A motorist who hit speeds of 117mph before killing two pedestrians when he drove along the verge on the wrong side of the road has been jailed. |
| Richard Frost, 39, ploughed into Thomas Fletcher, 19, and Thomas Northam, 22, from behind along the B1091 at Yaxley, Cambridgeshire, in January 2017. | Richard Frost, 39, ploughed into Thomas Fletcher, 19, and Thomas Northam, 22, from behind along the B1091 at Yaxley, Cambridgeshire, in January 2017. |
| Frost had binged on cocaine for 18 hours and then fled the scene. | Frost had binged on cocaine for 18 hours and then fled the scene. |
| He admitted causing death by dangerous driving and was jailed for 12 years and one month at Cambridge Crown Court. | He admitted causing death by dangerous driving and was jailed for 12 years and one month at Cambridge Crown Court. |
| Frost, of Dorset Avenue, Chelmsford, was also banned from driving for 11 years and seven months. | |
| At a previous hearing, prosecutor Jonathon Polnay told the court that Frost picked up two passengers, Tracy Anderson and James Archer, in Essex on 2 January, the day before the crash, and drove to Grimsby and then Boston in Lincolnshire. | |
| "Everyone in the car was taking drugs," said Mr Polnay, who added Ms Anderson was putting cocaine into Frost's hand so he could take it while driving. | |
| Frost was using the hard shoulder and lay-bys to undertake vehicles at speed and one witness described his control of the BMW X5 as "driving like a nutter". | |
| On a 999 call played to the court another said "if he doesn't run into someone or kill someone it will be a miracle". | |
| After the crash at about 11:00 GMT, Frost fled the scene with a suitcase containing £72,000, making off through fields and assaulting a man who tried to make him wait for police. | |
| Officers found him asleep at his mother's house in Chelmsford later that evening and the suitcase was found in the garden. | |
| Frost also admitted two counts of common assault and one of money laundering at a previous hearing. | |
| PC James Thorne, from Cambridgeshire Police, said: "This was the worst piece of driving I have ever, and probably will ever, see. | |
| "Frost drove his X5 in a manner which was beyond dangerous and placed an untold amount of people at risk of serious injury." |