He literally gambled with other people’s lives.
Horrifying video shows a driver plowing into a line of stationary cars while he gambled on his phone — forcing a pregnant victim into an emergency C-section to save her first child.
The dashcam footage showed Jack Bentley, 30, barreling his Ford Focus down a dual-lane highway in Derby, England — then smashing into a Nissan as it sat at the end of a long line of other cars stopped in front of him.
Bentley’s cell phone data showed he had been using gambling apps for most of his two-hour trip before the horrific crash, police said, calling it “nothing short of despicable.”
A pregnant woman — expecting her first child — was in the passenger seat of the car that Bentley rammed into. She suffered a fractured pelvis and was forced to undergo an emergency C-section before her newborn was rushed into intensive care.
“No mother or father should have to go through this,” she said in an emotional, anonymous victim statement about the “very traumatic experience.”
Two other children in the car were also hurt — and the family’s pet dog needed emergency surgery from unspecified serious injuries. The driver suffered whiplash.
Bentley admitted dangerous driving and was sentenced to 28 months in prison.
“This was an appalling display of driving by Bentley, who spent the majority of his journey distracted by being on his phone,” said Constable Richard Morris, who led the investigation.
“From watching the dashcam footage, it was clear that had he been paying attention he would have seen the queue of traffic in front of him and been able to stop in time,” he said.
“The fact his actions caused a woman to give birth prematurely and left a tiny baby spending the first few weeks of their life in intensive care is nothing short of despicable.”
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