A MAN involved in a serious collision near Braintree earlier this year that left a woman paralysed has been summonsed to court to face charges.
Benjamin Hagon, 36, of Acorn Avenue, Halstead, was the driver of a black Mercedes convertible which was involved in a collision with a black Ford KA on the A131, Halstead Road, High Garrett, on Sunday, February 9.
The woman in her 20s was airlifted to Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridgeshire with life-threatening injuries and was in a coma for three months.
The driver of the Mercedes and a passenger from the Ford were taken to Broomfield Hospital, in Chelmsford, for treatment and later released.
Hagon will have to answer charges of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, dangerous driving and drink driving at Colchester Magistrates Court on December 16.
