{"id":33565,"date":"2025-04-19T18:13:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T18:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/33565\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T18:13:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T18:13:18","slug":"jailed-west-bromwich-drink-driver-went-on-fishing-trip-in-wifes-car-and-crashed-on-the-m5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/33565\/","title":{"rendered":"Jailed: West Bromwich drink driver went on fishing trip in wife&#8217;s car and crashed on the M5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacek Lagowski already had three previous driving convictions in the two years preceding the incident, which happened on the northbound carriageway near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/sandwell\/west-bromwich\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Bromwich<\/a> on December 29 last year.<\/p>\n<p>Wolverhampton Crown Court was shown footage of Lagowski driving the Audi at 50mph in the inside lane of the busy motorway and swerving inwards.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/a28dbf50-26d3-41fb-8851-db03f62bcc77.avif\"   loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/><\/p>\n<p>He clipped another car which flipped his own car over and careered into the middle lane, causing extensive damage to two \u00a0more vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The collision left the section near junction one closed for nearly an hour while crews from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmfs.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Fire Service<\/a> and National Highways cleared the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacek Lagowski already had three previous driving convictions in the two years preceding the incident, which happened on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,379,12,12608,16,15,17299],"class_list":{"0":"post-33565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-sandwell","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-west-bromwich"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114365989435769411","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}