A lying motorist tried to blame his ex-girlfriend for a hit-and-run crash which left a road worker needing to have his leg amputated.
Anthony Tregonning, 41, drove down the coned-off lane of a dual carriageway at 131mph as he tried to avoid police in his £50,000 modified supercar.
He then smashed into road worker Ieuan Parry, who suffered injuries so severe he was forced to have his leg amputated, but failed to stop at the scene and continued to speed off.
Tregonning later phoned police to report his uninsured white Mitsubishi as stolen in a futile bid to avoid justice, but had been filmed getting into the vehicle by a neighbour’s doorbell camera.
He claimed a friend had seen the car ‘flying down the road’, and he believed his ex-partner took it following a ‘bad break-up’ – adding she ‘laughed’ down the phone as he demanded to know where it was.
Shocking footage shows the shameless driver attempting to avoid blame when police came to his house in Georgetown, Tredegar, for questioning.
Standing in a grey beanie hat, Tregonning tells officers: ‘I went out, then about 10.30, obviously when I’ve come back, the car’s gone off the f****** drive.’
But having already seen the doorbell footage next to his home, officers respond: ‘You’re captured on the ring doorbell getting in the car, leaving. You return without the car.’
Anthony Tregonning, 41, (pictured) tries to blame his ex for a hit-and-run smash that left a road worker having to have his leg amputated
The careless driver failed to stop at the scene and continued to speed off, before abandoning his car (pictured)
Emergency services attended the scene to help Ieuan Parry, who suffered serious injuries
Mr Parry spent 17 days in hospital and had his leg amputated from the knee down following the smash in November 22, 2021, prosecutor Peter Donnison said.
He had been blowing grass on a verge of the A465 road in South Wales, with cones laid out in the road to protect him, Cardiff Crown Court heard.
But Tregonning had ignored the bollards to drive down the closed lane, the court heard, and when Mr Parry looked up he saw the white car hurtling towards him.
He was spun by the crash and looked down to see his leg was clearly broken.
Tregonning later pleaded guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving and perverting the course of justice.
In a victim personal statement, Mr Parry said: ‘I had a full leg amputation below my left knee and reconstructive surgery on my knee. I had a fractured skull which was treated with stitches.
‘Every day I think about how my dream has been taken away and I know I must live a different way of life.
In police footage, Tregonning is arrested by officers after trying to act like he had nothing to do with the crash
Tregonning had ignored the bollards to drive down a closed lane, the court heard
‘I was an independent person and enjoyed doing basic day-to-day things around the house like cooking, DIY, and gardening but I have to sit back and watch people do it for me.’
Jeff Jones, defending, said the offence was ‘out of character’.
Sentencing, Judge Timothy Petts said Mr Parry had suffered ‘the most appalling injuries’.
He added: ‘Every aspect of his life – home, work, social life – has been ruined by your stupidity. No sentence I can pass can make good what you did to Mr Parry.’
Tregonning was jailed for three years and four months. He was also disqualified from driving for five years and eight months.
