A woman who killed an elderly couple in a horrific head-on car crash while using her mobile phone has been jailed for nine years. Patricia Pringle, 56, was driving a blue Volkswagen Golf when she veered onto the opposite side of the road, crashing into a silver Fiat Qubo on the A47 in Barrowden, Rutland, in May 2022.
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Retired geologist Clive Jones OBE, 89, and his wife Elaine, 82, a former archaeologist, were pronounced dead at the scene. Pringle was taken to hospital with a broken arm following the crash.
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