Overview
- Dyas, now 19, pleaded guilty at Cardiff Crown Court to causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
- Judge Recorder Christian Jowett imposed an 18‑month prison term and banned her from driving for two years and nine months.
- The July 2024 incident happened in an almost empty Mountain Ash train station car park as Declan Mahoney played rugby with friends.
- Mahoney suffered fractures to his arm, leg and finger and told the court he now struggles with daily life and feels nervous to leave the house.
- In a police interview, Dyas called the crash an accident caused by distraction, while the judge said she drove deliberately and at excessive speed.