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'Idiot' teen driver sentenced after Bristol car crash left boy, 4, seriously injured

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James Doherty , 18 , was sentenced to two years and two months in a young offenders institute.

He was sentenced at Bristol Crown Court on Friday for causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

A four-year-old boy who was waiting with his father and stepmother was left trapped under the vehicle.

Doherty and his wife, who was a passenger in the car, ran off from the scene but he handed himself in at a local police station.

The boy had collapsed lungs, fractured pelvis, fractured ribs and spinal fracture.

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