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Bus crash driver is facing jail.


A DRUNKEN bus driver was told yesterday he will be sent to jail for the M1 crash that injured in·jure  
tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures
1. To cause physical harm to; hurt.

2. To cause damage to; impair.

3.
 33 passengers.

Leslie Weinberg, 35, was cut from his National Express coach after it overturned.

He had 145mg of alcohol in 100ml of blood. The limit is 80. And after he admitted dangerous and drunk driving at Aylesbury crown court, the judge warned him: "This is way past the custody threshold. You should make arrangements accordingly."

Weinberg, formerly of West Bromwich West Bromwich (brŭm`ĭj, –ĭch, brŏm`wĭch), city (1991 pop. 146,386), Sandwell metropolitan district, W central England. , tipped over his Birmingham to Stansted coach on a sliproad to Newport Pagnell Services Newport Pagnell services is a motorway service station between junctions 14 and 15 of the M1 motorway near Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire. It is owned by Welcome Break. , Bucks, last September.

One man had his arm amputated and seven more people were seriously hurt.

An interim ban was imposed as sentencing was adjourned until next month.
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Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:Apr 15, 2008
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