Drink driver jailed after seriously injuring three pedestrians in Wakefield crash

A drink driver has been jailed for three years and eight months after she hit three pedestrians, including a police officer, in Wakefield leaving them seriously injured.

Karolina Serafin was driving a Renault Megane when it mounted the pavement and collided with the three people and a police van in the city centre in July.

All three pedestrians - a male police officer, a man and a woman - suffered serious and life changing injuries.

Serafin, of Worksop, Nottinghamshire, admitted three counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving at Leeds Crown Court. 

PC Neil Clark of West Yorkshire Police’s Major Collision Enquiry Team said: “I welcome the sentence handed down by the court today.

“This motorist’s dangerous actions while over double the drink drive limit took place on a busy weekend night in Wakefield city centre and has led to three innocent people suffering serious and life changing injuries. It will affect them for the rest of their lives.”

“I hope that today’s sentencing will send a message to anyone who takes to our roads, and particularly so as we get closer to the festive period, that getting behind the wheel of a motor vehicle whilst under the influence of alcohol or drugs has a serious impact on people’s lives – and for that there must be serious consequences.”

As well as her jail sentence Sarafin was also banned for driving for seven years and 10 months.