'Show off' boy racer killed friend in horror crash while waiting to do speed awareness course
'Show off' boy racer killed friend in horror crash while waiting to do speed awareness course
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A boy racer killed a 16-year-old boy while careering at nearly 70mph in a 30 zone while waiting to do a speed awareness course. Rookie driver Adam Ali was about to do the course after being clocked speeding on a motorway and wrongly using his car horn when he killed victim Ben Burbidge, who was riding in the back of his Corsa at the time. The maniac driver had been "showing off" to three friends when he put his foot to the floor through a residential area during wet weather.
Ali, then 18, lost control of the car, ploughing into a lamppost on the street in Audenshaw, Manchester. Ben suffered fatal injuries in the smash and tragically died in hospital, while an 18-year-old man in the front seat suffered multiple rib fractures. The third passenger mercifully escaped uninjured in the smash on the night of October 15, 2022.
A court heard how student Ali, now 20, had passed his driving test only five months earlier and was awaiting the speed awareness programme to avoid incurring the points on his licence. While awaiting trial, he was caught speeding again - causing another road smash and found to have inhaled nitrous oxide behind the wheel - despite being banned from driving.
One eye witnesses said they heard the Corsa ‘revving loudly’ in the run up to the smash. A second witness, an off duty police traffic officer, said the Corsa ‘flew past’ him and said Ali was driving ‘strikingly fast’ for the conditions. Both sprinted towards the wreckage of the Corsa to find Ali crawling out of the driver’s side window. When interviewed by police he initially denied speeding but later confessed to wrongdoing.
