Drink driver disqualified following serious crash

A 27-year-old from Swavesey's been banned after a head on crash.

Florin Huhurez of Burges Close, Swavesey, had been on a night out in St Ives drinking with friends when he made the decision to drive his red Audi A3 home.

At about 5.10am on 9 July 2023 police were called to London Road in Hemingford, close to the junction with Marsh Lane, with reports of Huhurez’s vehicle in a head-on collision with a grey Nissan Qashqai.

Huhurez blew 82 at the roadside, more than twice the legal limit of 35 microgrammes per 100 millilitres of breath.

In hospital he gave an evidential urine sample of 174 milligrams, above the legal limit of 107 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of urine.

The other driver, a woman in her 30s, was taken to hospital where she was treated for injuries including a broken toe, clot in her knee, tissue damage to her calf and nerve damage to her knee.

PC Toby McEvoy from Cambridgeshire Police who investigated, said: 

“It was just luck that day that someone wasn’t more seriously injured. Huhurez put lives at risk when he made the decision to get in his car and drive after a night out consuming alcohol. The force of the crash was so great that the entire engine left the engine bay of one of the vehicles and travelled more than 30 meters along the road.

We encourage anyone who suspects a drink driver to report it to us.”

Cambridgeshire Poluce operates a confidential 24/7 hotline for drink and drug drivers on 0800 032 0845.