Mail Online.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nAdditionally, the front passenger airbag had also been turned off, meaning it didn\u2019t deploy upon impact.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Following the crash, both Hammond and Mr Brazil managed to climb from the wrecked vehicle but Mr Anderson remained trapped, with serious injuries to his chest and lungs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hammond then reportedly laid down on a grass verge and said \u201cI think I’m going to prison now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr.Brazil, who had invited his best friend Mr.Entwistle on the night out, told the court how he had been seated in the passenger seat immediately behind him – and tried in vain to save his life following the collision.<\/p>\n
\u201cI tried my best to keep him alive,\u201d he told the court, as he described how he had dragged his friend from the wreckage and performed CPR on him, shouting for Mr Anderson to call 999.<\/p>\n
\u201cI consider myself extremely lucky but it doesn’t take away my guilt that I survived and Ethan did not,\u201d he confessed.<\/p>\n
Sadly, at that point no amount of help would have been able to save Mr.Entwistle, as a post-mortem exam later revealed he had suffered \u201cmassive blunt-force injuries\u201d which were \u201cunsurvivable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yet even despite this, paramedics still battled to save him for over an hour before he was unfortunately pronounced dead at 4:30am on October 1.<\/p>\n
When arrested at the scene following the crash, Hammond is said to have made remarks about going to prison\u00a0and lamented how disappointed his parents would be in him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He also freely disclosed how much he had been drinking to paramedics, as he reported drinking \u201cone or two Jagerbombs\u201d at the pub and \u201cone or two” of a drink he could not remember in Ramsgate.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yet when questioned by police, he repeatedly declined to comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Ethan’s mum Keena Entwistle has been tirelessly campaigning for graduated driving licenses (Image: ITV)<\/p>\n
Judge James said Mr Entwistle was \u201cclearly a very special young man\u201d who was both \u201cvibrant and popular\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He called him \u201ca beloved son, a supportive big brother and a friend to many\u201d, adding: \u201cHis death has broken the hearts of all who knew and loved him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Among those mostly deeply wounded by his death, was his mother Keena Entwistle\u00a0who gave a heartbreaking victim impact statement at the hearing.<\/p>\n
Her statement read: \u201cI can honestly say that Ethan would have preferred to have been killed rather than any other person in the car – as was his selfless nature…<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was an innocent, introverted boy who showed devotion to his family.\u00a0When he left that night, I remember telling him I love him and, “Be good”.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said, “I always am, love you momsie” \u2013 those were his last words to me.\u00a0My heart shattered that day and has never healed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI should have been celebrating his birthday. Instead, my beautiful blue-eyed boy was dead on a trolley.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was dried blood on his ear, there was a bruise on his shoulder, his nose was broken. All I wanted to do was hold him but I couldn’t.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI’ve not slept for more than a few hours since the crash.\u00a0I’ve not slept on a Saturday night since October 1, 2023, because I fear someone else will die.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking outside the court on Thursday, Ms.Entwistle revealed she was unbothered by the sentence given, as it was the admission of guilt she had sorely needed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe sentence, I wasn’t fussed by. It was the fact that I needed him to plead guilty,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cI needed him to take responsibility for what he’d done and the trauma he’d caused. With him doing that, that was what I wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n
She then added: \u201cI\u2019ve felt immense guilt because I wasn’t there with Ethan.\u00a0I’ve been told by numerous people that it wasn’t anything to do with me and hearing him has helped relieve some of that guilt that I was feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since losing her son, Ms Entwistle has launched a campaign to try and stop other young people from suffering the same fate by calling on the government to introduce graduated driving licenses.<\/p>\n
These new licenses would stop young people from carrying ‘peer-aged passengers’ for six months after their test, with notable exceptions.<\/p>\n
They would also prohibit young people from driving between 12am and 6am, when statistically most fatal crashes occur.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want the Government to acknowledge the fact that our children aren’t a number, they’re not a statistic, they’re a person and if it [had] been in place, there is the possibility Ethan could be here now,\u201d said Ms Entwistle.<\/p>\n
However, despite a tireless campaign, and a petition that amassed more than 100,000 signatures, a Department for Transport spokesperson\u00a0previously said the government was not considering graduated driving licences and instead directed attention towards their ongoing Road Safety Strategy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Following the conclusion of sentencing, Investigating officer DC Lee Berridge of Kent Police said: “This has been a tragic case for all involved. Our investigation shows that the cause of the collision was due to the irresponsible actions of the driver in consuming alcohol and having little to no regard for the safety of his passenger, furthermore failing to heed the warning of his passengers to slow down.<\/p>\n
“The message is clear, never get behind the wheel of a vehicle after drinking alcohol and if you are a passenger, don\u2019t be afraid to refuse a lift.<\/p>\n
“The decision by Colby Hammond to drink and drive that night had devastating consequences. A life was lost, and my thoughts remain with them and their loved ones who have been left grieving.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drunk Driver Colby Hammond has been sentenced for seven years (Image: Kent Police) A drunk driver who accidentally…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26913,48916,48917,48919,48918,48920,49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-100104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-accident","9":"tag-driving-laws","10":"tag-drunk-driving","11":"tag-ethan-entwistle","12":"tag-fatal-crash","13":"tag-graduated-driving-licenses-campaign","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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