Teenage driver, Harlee Pendergast, not sentenced over horror crash on Medway City Estate
00:00, 10 May 2017
updated: 09:56, 10 May 2017
A teenager who ploughed into 15 people while showing off his modified Mini on Medway City Estate has still not been sentenced.
A judge warned Harlee Pendergast, 18, he was facing a spell behind bars after the horror crash, which left four people seriously hurt.
Pendergast was arrested after the incident, which led to four men aged between 20 and 50 being taken to a London hospital.
Victims suffered injuries including a fractured skull and spine when he lost control of the car late at night.
Pendergast pleaded guilty to four counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and one count of withholding information to obtain insurance when he appeared before Woolwich Crown Court in April.
The fifth offence relates to modifying a vehicle without declaring it to his insurers.
Changes included adding blue lights and a modified exhaust.
The court heard how Pendergast attended the “informal event” where car users “demonstrated” their vehicles on Friday, September 30, last year.
At a previous hearing it was revealed he was thought to be travelling between 47 and 69mph in the 30mph zone.
Those badly hurt were named as Mike Dwyer, Rory Nicholls, Ryan Taylor and Thomas Spriggs.
But Judge Alan Saggerson warned the defendant of the “high probability” he would receive an immediate custodial sentence.
Pendergast from Erith, south east London, was due to be sentenced yesterday, Tuesday, May 9, but the case was adjourned at the request of lawyers until Thursday, May 25.
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