Pregnant death-crash driver 'did not want to be stuck behind slower vehicle'

Laura Matthews-James had to be airlifted to hospital where doctors discovered her unborn child had died and delivered it stillborn by emergency Caesarean section, the court heard.

A woman who lost her unborn child in a head-on crash which resulted in the death of another motorist made her decision to overtake two cars in one go because she did not want to be stuck behind a slower vehicle "for even two miles", a court has heard.

Laura Matthews-James, 35, lost control of her Fiat 500 and collided with another vehicle in the oncoming lane on the B4300 near Carmarthen, South Wales, on February 26 last year, Swansea Crown Court heard.