The driver of a lorry involved in a crash which left a blind Falmouth woman with serious leg injuries and feeling 'destroyed' will face the possibility of three years in prison when he appears at court next month.

Paul Christopher Ince, 46, of Leyland, Lancashire, was at Truro Magistrates' Court on Monday morning where he entered no plea to charges of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and driving without due care and attention.

Also appearing at the same time was Gavin Morris Bentley, 39, of Cannock in Staffordshire, who as the company secretary of Midland Poling Services was charged with aiding or abetting the causing of injury by dangerous driving, and who also entered no plea.

Magistrates heard the allegation that on September 2 last year, part of a white DAF truck driven by Ince hit a parked van, sending it into the car of Kay Kitto, who was stood next to it at the time.

Mrs Kitto was hit by her own car, and suffered a fractured spine, fractured femur, tibia and fibula, and knee, as well as requiring skin grafts and having contusions to her head.

The prosecution told magistrates that Mrs Kitto's victim impact statement made "quite distressing reading," and states: "It's destroyed me, and I barely recognise who I am."

Ince also pleaded guilty and was fined £55 for one charge of failing to fill out a tachograph record sheet, which his defence solicitor said was due to his not usually driving the vehicle in question.

The case was sent for trial at Truro Crown Court, where the two men will appear for a first hearing on June 9.