A MUM was killed and her four-year-old son left fighting for life after an overtaking Audi driver ploughed into them head-on.
Emma Morris, 28, was travelling in her Peugeot 208 with her son and partner, James Walsh, when the horror unfolded.
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The mum-of-two’s car flipped after Jacqueline Hwila smashed into the family while overtaking another vehicle.
Emma was killed “virtually instantaneously”, while her son was seriously injured in the crash on Y Felinheli bypass near Bangor in Wales.
Hwila, 51, has now been jailed for seven years and four months for causing death by dangerous driving.
Caernarfon Crown Court heard Emma was taking her son to hospital as he had fallen ill when James heard her say “oh s***”.
He looked up to see an oncoming car in their outside lane moments before it collided with the Peugeot.
Police found Hwila had accelerated from 65mph to 69mph while attempting to overtake.
Two other cars were caught up in the smash, which James managed to escape by crawling through a window.
He said he called out to Emma but got no response, while her son was crying out.
The court was told he suffered brain bleeds, multiple neck and spine and other fractures and reduced consciousness.
James was left with a collapsed left lung and a fractured hand.
In a victim impact statement, Emma’s dad Stephen Morris said his “radiant” daughter had been taken away with “savage force”.
He added: “Her life was torn from her body. The pain of losing your only child cuts like a knife.
“The shock and horror of looking at my girl in the Chapel of Rest – so cold and lifeless – torments me.”
Osian Williams, dad to the four-year-old boy, told the court his son has short term memory loss and faces neurological and spinal procedures.
Investigating Officer, PC Gareth Rogers of the Serious Collisions Investigation Unit said: “While Mwila is now behind bars for this offence, nothing is going to bring Emma back, and our thoughts and sympathies remain with her family and friends, who have suffered unimaginable devastation.
“There is no sentence that can ever replace the hole that has been left in their lives, but we hope the passing of this sentence will act as a reminder to all drivers that momentary decisions to lose concentration can have devastating consequences.”
The family of Emma Louise Morris said, after sentencing: “There is no real justice for Emma. Jaqueline Mwila caused her death by dangerous driving, and although she pleaded guilty to all the charges against her, the sentence she was given does not go nearly far enough for us as a family.
“Our lives have been changed forever, shattered, mutilated by the recklessness and carelessness of this woman who chose to drive so dangerously as to kill our daughter without any regard for other road users that day.”