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This is the first picture of the drunk mum whose car was catapulted 15 feet in the air, with her toddler son in the back, when she crashed into a roundabout.

Tania Chikwature, 32, from the Midlands, was jailed for 26 weeks after pleading guilty to dangerous driving and driving while under the influence of alcohol.

The horrific smash was caught on the dashcam of a lorry which she overtook at high speed in her grey Nissan Qashqai.

She had her 19-month-old son in the back at about 11.40am on December 12 when the collision happened, a court was told.

Now a picture has emerged of Chikwature, who was tested four and three quarter hours after the crash - which showed 156 milligrams of alcohol in her blood - the legal limit is 80.

The horrific footage, which can be viewed above, showed Chikwature overtaking a lorry on the wrong side of solid white lines near to service.

She ploughed into a roundabout, launching her car about 15 feet in the air, before landing on its roof on the far side of the roundabout, colliding with the crash barrier and coming to a stop about 50 metres further up the road.

(Image: Terry Harris)

Members of the public went to their aid and pulled the toddler, who was hanging upside down in his car seat, out of the wreckage.

Police and ambulance attended and Chikwature refused to provide a routine breath sample.

Due to the amount of time that had passed since the collision, investigators requested a back-calculation was carried out by the forensic laboratory in order to accurately reflect the true alcohol levels at the time of the collision. The results came back with 246 milligrams of alcohol in her blood - more than three times the legal limit.

PC David Tudman, from the Beds, Cambs and Herts Road Policing Unit (RPU), said: “Chikwature showed complete disregard for the safety and welfare of her child and other road users in her manner of driving. It is pure luck that nobody was killed that day.

“This should serve as a warning to all motorists to highlight the dangers of driving while under the influence of alcohol; and to do so whilst in charge of a child is utterly irresponsible.”

Chikwature appeared at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court after pleading guilty to dangerous driving and driving while under the influence of alcohol at a hearing last month. She was sentenced to 26 weeks in prison and ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £115.

Lorry driver Richard Jones, who witnessed the crash said: “The car was totally destroyed and on its roof, the only other occupant was crumpled with her feet in the driver’s side and her body leaning back between the two front seats. She was talking to another bystander who was helping.

“At no point did she ask after the welfare of the child or refer to him. In the 32 years I have been driving this is one of the most dangerous pieces of driving I have ever witnessed, I see stuff on the road every day, but nothing this bad. What I witnessed fell far below what I would expect of a reasonable and competent driver, it was dangerous and stupid. I am upset that this was done with the child in the car, it was irresponsible.”