Drink-driver jailed after he ran over 10-year-old cyclist and drove home with bike trapped underneath car

Driver Keith Vernon hit the victim, then reversed over him, causing serious injuries

The unattended car after the crash and (inset) driver Keith Vernon
(Image credit: Sussex Police)

A drink-driver has been jailed after he ran over a 10-year-old cyclist and then drove home with the bike still stripped under his car. 

Keith Vernon had more than twice the legal limit of alcohol in his system, after drinking at a local pub, when he drove his black Renault Twingo into the victim, who was cycling with his dad on a quiet residential street in West Sussex. 

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