{"id":1092,"date":"2025-03-18T10:03:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T11:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2025-03-18T23:11:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T23:11:46","slug":"drunk-barmaid-had-six-passengers-in-small-car-when-she-caused-fatal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/drunk-barmaid-had-six-passengers-in-small-car-when-she-caused-fatal-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Drunk\u2019 barmaid had \u2018six passengers in small car when she caused fatal crash\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n\t\t\"March\t<\/div>
Karla Dodds had six passengers when her car flipped (Picture: NCJ Media)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A barmaid was \u2018well over\u2019 the drink-drive limit when one of her passengers died in a crash with six passengers in her small car, a court has heard.<\/p>\n

Karla Dodds offered to take six people to a house party in the back of her Hyundai i10, with four seated in the back, and one \u2018reluctantly\u2019 climbing into the hatchback\u2019s boot, jurors were told.<\/p>\n

Passenger Truman Hub had his head out of a rear passenger window when Dodds lost control and collided with a lamppost in North Tyneside on November 20, 2022. <\/p>\n

Hub died when the car overturned. Newcastle<\/a> Crown Court heard Dodds, 25, of Links Avenue, Whitley Bay, has admitted causing Truman\u2019s death by careless driving while over the drink-drive limit but she denies causing death by dangerous driving and is standing trial.<\/p>\n

Prosecutor Andrew Espley told the court Dodds had been working as a barmaid in a local pub Saturday night before going out drinking in Whitley Bay from around 11.30 pm. <\/p>\n

\u2018After spending a couple of hours in the Havana nightclub, in Whitley Bay, she picked up six other people to take them to a house party in Shiremoor. By then she was well over the legal limit for alcohol for driving,\u2019 he told the court. <\/p>\n

\n
\n\t\t\"March\t<\/div>
Karla Dodds is on trial in Newcastle Crown Court (Picture: NCJ Media)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mr Espley said one man got in the boot of the Hyundai and four got in the back of the car, including Truman, who was from North Shields and his girlfriend. <\/p>\n

The court heard that Dodds wasn\u2019t speeding \u2018excessively\u2019, but the car\u2019s speed was too fast \u2018in all the circumstances\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018The driver\u2019s side of the car hit a lamppost on the driver\u2019s side as she came off the roundabout, heading to a fairly sharp left. The collision itself caused the car to turn over onto its passenger side, crushing Truman Hub, who was still hanging out of the window,\u2019 he said. <\/p>\n

\u2018The car then turned on the roof, coming to a rest on the driver\u2019s side, by now a short distance from the point of collision.\u2019<\/p>\n

Mr Epsley added: \u2018She accepts her driving caused the death of Truman Hub but she denies her driving was dangerous.\u2019<\/p>\n

Hub was \u2018unlikely\u2019 to have died if he wasn\u2019t hanging out of the window, the court heard, but the car rolled over because of Dodds\u2019 \u2018dangerous\u2019 driving.<\/p>\n

\n
\n\t\t\"Truman\t<\/div>
Truman Hub (left) was with his girlfriend Lauren when he died in the collision (Picture: NCJ Media)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\n
\n\t\t\"Truman\t<\/div>
Truman (left) seen with brothers Hylton (middle) and Myles (right) (Picture: NCJ Media)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mr Espley said another passenger said Dodds had offered to drive them and said she\u2019d had a few drinks but was \u2018ok to drive\u2019 and he told her to have some water. <\/p>\n

He claimed she was driving too fast and said he told her to slow down and turned the music down at one point but she ignored him and turned the music back up. He said he also told her she had \u2018far too many people in the car\u2019. <\/p>\n

That passenger said he was unconscious after the crash, before hearing Dodds screaming, \u2018We\u2019ve got to go,\u2019 before Dodds and a friend fled the scene. He began CPR on Hub but couldn\u2019t find a pulse. <\/p>\n

Hub\u2019s girlfriend recalled there were four passengers in the back of the car \u2013 none of whom were wearing seatbelts. She had grabbed her boyfriend back into the car after he initially stuck his head out, but Hub did so again before the crash. <\/p>\n

The court heard Dodds was nearly twice the drink-drive limit almost four hours after the collision. <\/p>\n

When later interviewed by police, she said the \u2018whole thing was a bit of a blur\u2019 and she didn\u2019t know Truman was fatally injured when she left and was \u2018in shock\u2019. <\/p>\n

Asked if she thought it was dangerous to have seven people in a car designed for five people, she said: \u2018Yes I absolutely agree with that and I apologise.\u2019<\/p>\n

Dodds denies causing death by dangerous driving and the trial continues.<\/p>\n

Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

For more stories like this, <\/strong>check our news page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Karla Dodds had six passengers when her car flipped (Picture: NCJ Media) A barmaid was \u2018well over\u2019 the drink-drive limit when one of her passengers died in a crash with six passengers in her small car, a court has heard. Karla Dodds offered to take six people to a house party in the back of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}