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This heart-stopping video shows the shocking moment when a serial drink-driver ploughed into a bus stop and killed pedestrian Adam Uyiekpen.

The disturbing footage has been released at the request of the devastated family of the 31-year-old factory worker from Manchester.

The Uyiekpen family are furious after the driver, Tracy Carrington, 51, was jailed for just six years for causing death by dangerous driving.

Carrington, who was sentenced at Manchester Crown Court earlier this week, was banned from driving and had three previous convictions for being drunk behind the wheel.

But she still decided to again drive after a booze binge on August 2 – this time with fatal consequences.

The CCTV shows how Carrington’s Toyota Avensis smashed into a metal bus stop pole with such force it was torn from the ground and sent flying through the air into Mr Uyiekpen as he stood on the pavement.

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He was pronounced dead at the scene on Moston Lane, Harpurhey, despite the desperate efforts of paramedics and dozens of onlookers who rushed to his aid following the crash.

Footage taken from the CCTV of a passing bus shows Carrington colliding with the curb before careering across the carriageway and onto the opposite pavement.

A second man was also injured by the debris, but was later discharged from hospital after recovering from back and leg injuries.

Witnesses spotted drunk Carrington - who was three times over the limit - kangarooing along the road and mounting a grass verge outside a primary school before the fatal smash.

Adam’s family have now allowed the CCTV to be released after they slammed her six-year sentence for causing death by dangerous driving - saying "this isn't justice".

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The mum-of-four, of Routledge Walk, Harpurhey, could have received a maximum 14-year jail term. And Mr Uyiekpen's family feel the sentence was far too lenient on the serial offender.

Speaking to the Manchester Evening News, Adam’s brother Harry, 34, said: “Her record shows she was a repeat offender with no respect for the law and that led to my brother’s death, but she will be free in three years - how is that right? I don’t understand.

“We will never recover from Adam’s death for the rest of our lives and now that has been made worse because we don’t have justice for him.

“We know no sentence will bring him back but we don’t want someone else’s family to feel the same pain we feel now - the message this sends to the community is you can go out and kill somebody and you won’t be punished.”

The Uyiekpen family and the CPS are considering whether to challenge the sentence handed down by Judge Martin Steiger QC.