"Mum, I think I have messed up here": 'Idiotic' driver who killed a grandma and injured two of her relatives did 118mph in 30 zone

A dad was driving 118mph in a 30 zone just before he killed a grandmother and seriously injured her daughter and grandson when he crashed head-on into them.

Trent Simm, 25, lost control of his Audi S3 on the A58 and smashed into a Kia driven by Doris ‘Dot’ Bridgehouse, 82. Next to her was her daughter Amanda Holmes, then-55, and in the rear of the vehicle was her son Max, then aged 21.

Such was the force of the horrifying crash on May 13 last year, which police thought to have happened at speeds in excess of 88mph, the wreckage of the Kia was pushed back 25 metres. When Simm, who also injured a passenger in his own car, was told by Salford University student Max that his mother and grandmother were in the car after the crash, he phoned his own mother and said: “I think I have messed up here.”

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Dot was killed at the scene due to ‘multiple injuries’, Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard on Tuesday (November 14), with Amanda Holmes knocked unconscious and requiring months of hospital treatment. Despite suffering his own injuries, Max managed to crawl out of the vehicle moments after the collision.

Courtroom nine heard that Dot, Amanda, and Max had been to Salford University that day to view the Halifax lad’s final project in what was ‘the best day of my life’ — until it went to being ‘the worst’, he told the court. The trio were driving at 27mph on their way to home in Yorkshire via Halifax Road, Littleborough, at roughly 10:50pm when the incident took place.

Shortly before the