27/01/11…….Thame crash victim to sue driver

A young Thame man who was critically injured in a crash that killed his school friend, is to sue the guilty driver.

Joe Robinson, 19, of Oxford Road, Thame, was a back seat passenger and critically injured in the crash. He spent four weeks in a coma and spents months rehabilitating from injuries to his head and back.

Grace Hadman, 17, a pupil at St Edward?s School, in Oxford, died from her injuries after 18 year-old Gabriella Edmondson, of Penn, Buckinghamshire lost control of her car and crashed on the A34 near Wytham in April, 2009. She was jailed for 28 months in October, 2009 after admitting causing Miss Hadman?s death by careless driving while over the drink-driving alcohol limit.

Joe, who played rugby for Chinnor RFC and cricket for Thame Town, is now suing Edmondson for more than