The shocking moment a drunken young woman ignored the terrified request of her friends to slow down while speeding at 70mph, before a crash that killed her boyfriend, was captured on a car’s camera.
Chelsea Standage, 21, has been convicted of causing the death of Elliott Lemm, 20, by dangerous driving.
In the video filmed inside the car, Chelsea Standage, aged 19 at the time, was heard to say “I’m only doing 80mph” as a female passenger pleaded “slow down”.
Another voice mocking the pleading teenage girl joked, “Mate she’s never experienced a crash hahahaha” moments before tragedy struck.
Standage was nearly twice the drink drive limit and was caught on CCTV doing 70mph down 30mph residential streets when she clipped a parked car and crashed her Vauxhall Corsa into a wall.
Her boyfriend Elliott Lemm died in the wreckage following the collision in Horbury, near Wakefield, in the early hours of Saturday, November 13, 2021.
As Standage was today jailed for nearly nine years, Elliott’s devastated mother Samantha Lemm, from South Kirkby, West Yorkshire, told The Sun: “The videos of her telling everyone to ‘f*** off’ when they are begging her to slow down just make me feel sick.”
Ms Lemm said she would never forgive Standage as she recalled the trauma of identifying Elliott’s body with his father Ian and aunt Vicky.
She said: “I was begging and begging him to wake up. If I could have put my breath in him to give him my life I would have done in a heartbeat.
“I wanted to swap places with him. When I held his hand and realised he wasn’t waking up, I just dropped to the ground.”
Standage, now 21, of Barden Road, Wakefield, admitted causing Elliott’s death by dangerous driving and two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving to the two other passengers in the vehicle.
A court heard she lost control of her vehicle on a bend, colliding with a wall and a parked vehicle. She is estimated to have been travelling at over 70mph on the 30mph road and gave a breath test result of 63 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35.
At Leeds Crown Court, Standage was sentenced to eight years and eight months in prison. She will not be considered for release until she has served at least two thirds of her sentence. She was also banned from driving for ten years.
Ms Lemm added: “The day that I had to close the lid on his coffin and put Elliott into the dark I knew that it was forever.
“Elliot was taken so suddenly there was still so much for him to do and so much I wanted to say to him. Every morning when I wake up my heart is broken.”
Detective Sergeant Paul Lightowler, who investigated the case, said: “Chelsea Standage’s reckless actions on that night have had an absolutely devastating impact not just on those in the car but their families, friends and the wider community.
“People may recall this collision and the media coverage of Snapchat messages sent from within the car with one of the passengers telling Chelsea to ‘slow down’.
“Sadly, the speed she was travelling at and her impaired judgement from drinking alcohol killed one person and seriously injured two others.”
