Driver jailed after a serious crash in Cambourne

A 32 year old has been jailed and disqualified from driving after a collision on Back Lane.

Christopher Marshall-McIntosh was seen driving his silver Audi A4 at “excessive speed” around 8.45pm on Tuesday 5th March and he collided with a 15-year-old boy riding a push-scooter. Marshall-McIntosh sped away while the teenager was taken to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in a life threatening condition.

At about 10.20pm, the fire service informed officers they had found the Audi A4 on fire just off Highfields Road, in Highfields Caldecote. Marshall-McIntosh handed himself in at Parkside Police Station the following morning.

Marshall-McIntosh, of Marshall’s Close, Teversham, was jailed for one year and 11 months and disqualified from driving for five years and four months. 

DS Craig Wheeler, of the BCH Serious Collision Investigation Unit (SCIU), said:

“Marshall-Mcintosh’s driving and behaviour on the night was absolutely appalling. He knew he had struck and seriously injured a child in a completely avoidable collision, caused solely by the poor manner of his driving. He then selfishly fled the scene and tried to cover up what he had done by taking his car to a remote area in Caldecote and setting it on fire. 

We will not tolerate such appalling behaviour on our roads and I hope this sentence highlights our commitment to pursuing justice for those seriously injured on our roads.”