Drink-driver, 24, who downed shots then ignored her friends' pleas to slow down is jailed after head-on crash that left woman with life-changing injuries

A drink driver who ignored her friends' pleas to slow down before crashing her Audi head-on into another car and leaving a woman with life-changing injuries has been jailed. Gabrielle Dures, 24, drove her grey Audi A1 into an oncoming white Fiat 500 whilst travelling 'at speed' along a coastal road near her home on the Wirral, on Merseyside Dures was released on unconditional bail ahead of sentencing at Liverpool Crown Court on February 3. Dures pleaded guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving to four different women Stevie Garrity, Renee Hunt, Ria Islam, and Kiera Ord Passers-by rushed to help, including Joseph Thurlow, who was publicly commended by the judge for his speedy first aid which saved Ms Garrity from bleeding to death. According to court documents Dures, from Upton, who runs a skin care business, tested almost one and a half times the the alcohol limit with 'not less than' 114 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood, the legal limit being 80mg Dures's lawyer John Weate told the court that his client had been advised 'to go out and enjoy her life' after being discharged by her hospital consultant three weeks earlier after seven years of radiotherapy for a rare form of brain tumour. She was also banned from driving for 14 months and offered the drink drive awareness course Dures said that her actions that night 'will weigh heavy on me for the rest of my life and this is something that I have accepted as part of my punishment.'