A 20-year-old university student has been jailed following an instance of reckless driving that hospitalised a supermarket shopper in a car park earlier this year.
Hlobelam Nongwr, of Willmer Road in Anfield, appeared in Liverpool Crown Court yesterday afternoon to face prosecution for his “dangerous driving” that seriously injured a supermarket shopper on April 8th of this year.
He has been jailed for 20 months and banned from driving for two years and 10 months, and will be required to pass an extended driving test before he is allowed back onto the roads.
The university student and representative was driving an uninsured BMW on a provisional licence when he mowed down Katarzyna Dybalska, who was crossing the car park on foot while wearing a hi-vis jacket and pushing her shopping.
Liverpool Crown Court heard that Hlobelam Nongwr was seen to be “driving at speed and going around in circles, doing doughnuts” in the car park of the Aldi supermarket on Salop Road, Walton at around 9:30 pm.
The driver’s front seat passenger allegedly “told him to stop multiple times” but the student “didn’t listen to him”.
Instead, he continued to drive “dangerously” through the supermarket car park before colliding with Katarzyna Dybalska.
The impact flung the shopper into a wall, which Hlobelam Nongwr then veered into and destroyed.
The driver’s front seat passenger allegedly “told him to stop multiple times” but the student “didn’t listen to him”.
Instead, he continued to drive “dangerously” through the supermarket car park before colliding with Katarzyna Dybalska.
The impact flung the shopper into a wall, which Hlobelam Nongwr then veered into and destroyed.
The shopper suffered multiple fractures to her tibia and ankle. She later underwent surgery and still remains off work – but she is expected to make a full recovery with “no lifelong consequences”.
When shown the CCTV footage of the incident in court, the 20-year-old student “became tearful”.
He was holding his head in his hands in court as he was sent to prison over the incident.