Dangerous driver who reached up to 108ph before crashing into a tree. the man who killed, 19, is imprisoned

After pleading guilty, Muhammed Waqas was sentenced to eight years in prison at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday for causing death by dangerous driving and causing death by driving a vehicle without insurance, following the crash on Nechells Parkway, in Birmingham in May last year.

Waqas was also banned from driving for nine years.

The 22-year-old, of Dolphin Road, Birmingham, was driving an Audi SQ5 when it collided with a tree on the central reservation of Nechells Parkway on the afternoon of Sunday 1 may. Waqas was driving at high speed when he lost control and crashed into a tree, and his 19-year-old passenger sadly died at the scene.

Detective Sergeant Paul Hughes, of the force's Serious Collision Investigation Unit, said: “Tragically, a young man lost his life following the dangerous actions of Muhammed Waqas on the road last year last.

“Our forensic investigators were able to calculate that Waqas was traveling at speeds between 160 and 170 km/h just before the turn. Nechells Parkway has a speed limit of 40 km/h and at those speeds the vehicle was never going to negotiate the turn These types of speeds are completely unacceptable on any of our roads.

“Excessive speed is one of the most common factors in the tragic incidents my team and I face, especially with young drivers like Waqas.

“Even though he was rightly incarcerated for his actions, our hearts go out to the family of this 19-year-old man, whose family lost a son. This whole tragedy was completely avoidable and we need drivers to think to their decisions and realize that in a split second, those decisions can result in the loss of a life.