VIDEO: JCB boss's drink-drive crash is caught on film

Video footage caught on the victim's dashboard camera captures Ian Pratt exiting the Globe roundabout before losing control and ploughing straight into the side of the vehicle.

The 48-year-old sales managing director from Kings Bromley Lane admitted being twice over the legal drink-drive limit and was fined £2,500 and handed an 18-month road ban on Wednesday.

Today, the driver on the receiving end spoke of his shock.

Glynn Martin, 45, was behind the wheel at the time while his partner Sandra Whitehouse, 43, was in the passenger seat.

The couple had just returned from Sandra's hairdressing business in Lichfield on June 28 and were heading home around 7pm when Pratt lost control and veered across Elmore Lane.

Mr Martin said: "I happened to see him out of the corner of my eye and swerved a little bit, Sandra was on the phone and didn't see it until the last second.

"He went straight into us. I thought he was going to drive off but he pulled into the garage.

"I got out and said 'What are you playing at?'. Me and Sandra looked at each other and said 'He's drunk'. You could see it straight away."

Mr Martin said Pratt willingly exchanged contact details but then tried to leave. At that point, he took pictures of him and his Audi A8 on his mobile phone.

Meanwhile, his partner called the police and Pratt was arrested at a nearby bus stop.

Mr Martin said: "I was just gobsmacked. Thankfully on the day, the police did an excellent job of tracking him down and arresting him and getting a drunk-driver off the roads."

He added: "I was 100 per cent against drink-driving anyway and this just proves why.

"I normally ride a motorbike and if I had of been on my bike that would have been it for me."

Cannock Magistrates Court heard this week how Pratt measured 69 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35.

Chairman of the bench Mr Neil Lomas fined Pratt £2,500 and ordered him to pay court charges £150, victims surcharge £120, costs £80. He also agreed to undertake a the 'I Am' drink and drive rehabilitation course.

Buy dashboard camera, urges victim

Rugeley motorist Glynn Martin captured the moment a drink-driver ploughed into him thanks to a £6 dashboard camera he bought off the internet.

The road collision victim is in the process of claiming back the costs of repairing his car and could save hundreds of pounds thanks to the cheap equipment which he described as a 'God-send'.

Mr Martin said: "I got it about three years ago when they were next to nothing from China.

"There is one fitted to the back as well. I got them because somebody I knew had a refuse wagon back into their car and luckily enough he had a camera already. It recorded this wagon hitting them and them moving away.

"This is the first time for me it has proved to be useful but I would just advise everyone to get a dashboard camera.

"When I uploaded my footage to the insurance people they called me back in five minutes and said 'this is 100 per cent proof'."

The technology is fast becoming popular with drivers as they look to protect themselves on the roads in case of a collision. Now, police forces are considering using dashboard camera footage as evidence to help prosecute dangerous drivers. West Midlands Police have already confirmed they will be launching a scheme in a bid to clamp down on reckless road users.

But motorists have been warned they may also leave themselves open to legal action because they will also have to provide video recordings of before and after any incident.

Meanwhile in February a horrifying video emerged from a camera fitted to a HGV which caught the moment a teenager narrowly missed being hit by the 40-ton truck whilst playing chicken on the A449 in Staffordshire.