Former World Champion Prince Naseem gets 15 months in prison for high speed car crash

Prince Naseem car crash

12/05/2006

Former boxing world champion Prince Naseem Hamed was today sentenced to 15 months in prison at Sheffield High Court, and disqualified from driving for four years after he admitted a charge of Dangerous Driving. The former world featherweight champion was charged following a head on collision between his Mercedes McClaren SLR and a Volkswagen Golf.

Road accident solicitor

Following the sentence road traffic accident solicitor Jane Wright of the national law firm Irwin Mitchell, who represent the couple who were injured in the collision, said “Our clients are extremely relieved with this decision and the sentence that has been returned. People must never underestimate the amount of damage done to people’s lives through driving dangerously on the roads.”

She continued “They hope that this sentence will help other people realise the dangers inherent in speeding.”

The crash happened on Sunday May 2 2005 on Ringinglow Road, Sheffield less than a mile from Mr Hamed’s £3m mansion. The court heard that he was driving his £300,000 super car at over 90mph whilst overtaking on a blind brow of a hill, in direct contravention of the white line system in operation on that road.

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