This is the shocking moment an uninsured learner driver ran away after killing a woman in a horror head-on crash.
Khizer Ali, 24, smashed his mum’s VW Golf into a Vauxhall Meriva carrying Valerie Ayres, 65 and her husband David, 70, who were on their way to the shops.
Dashcam footage shows Ali speeding at 59mph in a 40mph zone moments before the fatal crash on the A441 in Redditch, Worcestershire, on April 23 last year.
Mrs Ayres was killed instantly while her husband suffered horrific life-changing injuries.
Ali, of Redditch, admitted a string of offences, including causing death by dangerous driving, at Worcester Crown Court.
On Friday, May 16, he was jailed for 11 years and three months and banned from driving for 12-and-a-half years.
The court heard Ali, who only held a provisional licence, had been driving his sister’s car but swapped with her to get into their mother’s Golf.
The car was a Motability scheme vehicle that only his mother and sister were insured on.
Khizer Ali, 24, was jailed for 11 years and three months and banned from driving for 12-and-a-half years for causing the death by dangerous driving
Valerie Ayres, 65, was killed instantly while her husband David, 70, suffered horrific life-changing injuries
Dashcam footage showed the shocking moment Ali ran away after killing Ms Ayres in a horror head-on crash
Dashcam footage from the Golf captured the moment sister Sanaa Shahzad showed him how to operate the automatic car.
She let him use it while she attended an eyelash appointment after they had swapped cars at a car wash on Hewell Road in Redditch.
During his reckless journey Ali left the car wash where he was clocked on the Golf’s dashcam doing 62mph in a 30mph.
He also had a near miss with a car coming the opposite direction under a railway bridge.
Seconds later, Ali went twice around a roundabout going too fast and ignoring the designated lanes before hurtling onto the Alvechurch Highway at full throttle.
He finally lost control and careered onto the wrong side of the road where he smashed head-on with Valerie and David’s Vauxhall.
Footage shows him running away from the scene before being arrested at his home a short time later.
A video detailing Ali’s crimes have been released by the police
The video details how Ali was driving recklessly before he collided head on with Valerie and David
Ali’s sister Sanaa Shahzad, 20, admitted two counts of causing or permitting the use of a vehicle without valid insurance or a licence.
She had also lent the car to another unknown man, before letting her brother drive it.
Shazaad also pled guilty to a further charge of refusing the password or pin to her mobile phone under Section 49 of Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA).
She was bailed to be sentenced on all counts on Thursday, June 26.
Detective Constable Rose Hughes, of West Mercia Police, said: ‘He [Ali] showed a total disregard for the safety of the public when took the car off his sister that day, driving recklessly and dangerously which is exacerbated by the fact he should never have been behind the wheel of this car as he did not hold a full driving licence.
‘We hope this sentence and the tragic outcome will teach a sobering lesson about the reason for speed limits and driving regulations to anyone thinking about ever getting behind the wheel without having passed their test or driving in such a thoughtless and selfish manner putting so many people at risk as he did.
‘Ali should never be driving again. Offenders like him have no place on our roads.
‘His sister Shahzad quite rightly bears some of the responsibility for the outcome of this tragedy too. She should never have leant him the car, especially as she knew he was a learner driver with no insurance.’
Bodycam footage captured the moment Ali was arrested and placed in the back of a police van for the dangerous driving
Following the sentencing, Mrs Ayres’ devastated family paid tribute to her.
Her husband David said: ‘Val was the life and soul of the party; we did everything together.
‘Val was so bubbly and funny, ‘nuts’ we used to call her, she was always doing stupid things to make people laugh and had a good time wherever we went.
‘My life has been turned upside down, I can’t express how much I miss Val and wish the whole thing never happened.
‘Val was an amazing woman, the best there was.
‘Val stuck by me through thick and thin, and I will love with all my heart for that and more until the day I die.’
The couple’s daughter Lucy added: ‘My mom was my best friend we always spent time together, people used to remark I have never seen a mother and daughter so close.
‘I cannot put into words what this man has taken away not only me, but the rest of the family.
‘Mom was the only person I would talk to about everything, who do I talk to now?
‘Every day, I wish I could pick up the phone to hear her voice, share my thoughts and for her to tell me everything is going to be ok.
‘We have not long ago been on holiday with dad, but it just wasn’t the same, mum was the glue in our family and kept us going.’
Last year 56 people were killed and 516 were seriously injured in road traffic collisions across Herefordshire, Shropshire and Worcestershire.
