A DANGEROUS driver high on drink and drugs crashed head-on into a mum and her three-year-old daughter before running off, leaving the woman badly injured.

Hashmatulloh Ibrahimi fled the scene of the crash, lied to a witness that he had called an ambulance and tried to attack police after he jumped into a nearby stream following the accident at Stoke Prior, near Droitwich.

Because the 39-year-old was jailed for more than 12 months at Worcester Crown Court on Friday he is now liable to be deported to his native Afghanistan, although any decision will be made by the Home Office.

Ibrahimi, of Highters Close, Birmingham, admitted causing serious injury by dangerous driving, two counts of drug driving, failure to stop at the scene of an accident and failure to surrender to bail following the crash on Hanbury Road on January 26.

Natasha Edwards, a mother-of-two from Bromsgrove, described how she suffered a broken right side collar bone, severe bruising over her hips and torso, kneecaps and legs and bruising under both eyes. She also suffered whiplash, sickness and a loss of mobility and psychological scars, including flashbacks and panic attacks.

The 33-year-old said: “Mr Ibrahimi has caused me no end of physical and emotional pain by his dangerous, drink and drug-fuelled driving. He crashed head on into me and my little girl. He crashed into us and ran away without any thought for what he had done. He crossed double white lines and could have killed us. I can’t get over that very easily and he has shown absolutely no remorse for his actions.”

The waitress was treated at the Alexandra Hospital for her injuries, is still receiving physiotherapy and has not yet regained full movement to her arm.

Lal Amarsinghe, prosecuting, said Ibrahimi was driving his silver Audi A6 on the Hanbury Road, running a red light and performing overtaking manoeuvres which attracted the concern of other drivers.

One witness said he thought: “What is that idiot doing?” Another described the defendant overtaking him on double white lines and pulling in sharply, forcing him to brake. Ibrahimi was on the wrong side of the road when he crashed head on into Mrs Edwards’s Citroen DS5 who had braked hard to avoid a collision. Her three-year-old daughter was unharmed but very distressed.

Ibrahimi ran away through some gardens and was arrested at 9.12am near a stream or river into which he had fallen.

Mr Amarasinghe said: “When apprehending him police noticed he smelled strongly of alcohol and was extremely violent towards the officers and tried to strike out against them.”

The defendant vomited beer and was hypothermic because of being in the water and had to be taken to hospital where his behaviour meant he had to be sedated.

A blood alcohol test revealed 91mg of alcohol in 100ml of blood (above the legal limit of 80mg). They also found 14mg of cocaine, above the limit of 10mg. The limit for Benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine, is 50mcg but the defendant had no less than 800 times this level in his blood. The samples were taken five and a half hours after the crash.

The court heard he had a string of previous convictions for drink driving in 2003, 2006 and 2007, and was jailed for 10 months in October 2007 for driving with excess alcohol, driving while disqualified and perverting the course of justice.

Amrisha Parathalingam, defending, said Ibrahimi had a young son, aged three and a half. She said: “He’s deeply ashamed of his behaviour and deeply sorry for the upset he has obviously caused Mrs Edwards.”

Judge Nicholas Cole said the defendant had made ‘a determined effort’ to escape the scene and that it ‘must have been a terrifying experience’ for the woman and her child.

The judge jailed him for three years and banned him from driving for six and a half.

Mrs Edwards said after the hearing: “I’m happy with that sentence. I’m glad he’s not going to be out there putting other lives at risk.”

She described the police handling of the case as ‘amazing’ and thanked the woman who looked after her daughter after the crash. She said she had just dropped off her six-year old son, who had been sitting in the front seat