Overview
- Mealing spoke publicly for the first time since the incident, saying a breakup and a series of bereavements left her overwhelmed before she drove.
- She acknowledged taking cocaine at a friend’s house before driving, which matched roadside tests that detected cocaine and its metabolite benzoylecgonine.
- In 2025 at Boston Magistrates Court, she pleaded guilty to drug-driving and to driving without due care and attention and received a 28-month driving ban with fines and costs.
- Her solicitor told the court she admitted the offence at the first opportunity and said she felt horrified and ashamed.
- Another driver, Mark Le Sage, says injuries from the three-vehicle crash ended his work as a theatre nurse.