A mum has been sent to prison for two years after squeezing seven schoolboys into her car before crashing - killing three of them as well as another driver.
Now, in addition to having to live with her conscience for the rest of her life and spend twenty-four months inside a cell, Angela Dublin is sure to miss out on a cheap car insurance deal in the future, even if she deals with a specialist women's car insurance provider.
46-year-old Dublin crammed the boys, all aged 13, into her car to take them out for dinner to celebrate her son's birthday. She lost control on the Oxford bypass on May 28th 2005 and swerved across the road, colliding with an oncoming car at high speed.
The driver of the other car was killed instantly, as were three of the boys in her vehicle. Dublin and several others suffered serious injuries and spent a considerable time in hospital recovering from their wounds.
The court heard how at least one of the boys was sitting in the boot of Dublin's Citroen Xsara, and the whole group was acting boisterously, distracting the driver and blocking her view.
Jailing her for two years concurrently on four counts of causing death by dangerous driving, Mr Justice Crane said, "Your decision to drive in those circumstances and your failure to stop when the distractions occurred made this a dangerous piece of driving."
A spokesman for CoverGirl Car Insurance Services, the women's car insurance experts, said, "This sounds like a tragic end to what should have been a wonderful day out for these boys."