An Alness flooring shop boss seriously injured two motorists in separate head-on crashes while he was driving under the influence of cocaine. Drug-driver blacked out in police carThe driver of the van was trapped in his vehicle and had to be freed by the emergency services. He suffered injuries to his head, shoulder, neck and chest and was unable to work for over six months. “In the first accident, he blacked out and did not realise that it was the cocaine that caused it,” Mr Keegan said. Sheriff Aitken criticised Marshall, of Swordale Road, Evanton, for twice making the decision to drive with drugs in his system, with almost “catastrophic consequences”.