A young driver was recorded reaching speeds of up to 125 miles per hour before crashing on a motorway, seriously injuring both him and his passenger.

Rhys Law was still doing 80mph in “horrible” rain before losing control at a merge between the M876 and the M9 near Dennyloanhead, Stiringshire, a court was told.

His white Honda Civic appeared to lose grip in a chevron area, before going up a grass embankment and crashing into a large tree.

He then went flying through the air before landing back on the highway, where a wheel came off and he nearly crashed into another car.

A court heard the Honda suffered “catastrophic damage” and both front seat belts failed, causing Law, then 20, and his front seat passenger, then 18, to be ejected from the vehicle. .

Law’s injuries included a fractured vertebra, broken jaw and kidney lacerations, while the passenger suffered neck and spine fractures, a broken shoulder blade, a broken wrist bone and broken rib, fractures to both legs, lacerations to the spleen and kidneys. and damage to blood vessels in the brain.

Doctors say his neck was left “severely weakened” after a fracture healed in the wrong position.

A GPX device used by McInally during the fateful trip recorded 125mph as the highest speed reached by the Honda, on the highway between the Kelpies monuments and the crash site.

The incident occurred around 9:05 p.m. on July 6, 2023.

Prosecutor Rachel Wallace said just before it happened, another motorist saw a white car and a blue car approaching the melting point “very quickly” and accelerating away.

The driver then heard a loud bang and saw the white car “leave off the road” and then fly through the air.

At Stirling Sheriff Court on Wednesday, Law, 22, of Sauchie, Clackmannanshire, admitted causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

Defense lawyer Ken Dalling said it was not known whether Law had lost control due to aquaplaning by going too fast or “for some other reason”.

He described the passenger as “a lifelong friend” of Law.

Sheriff Keith O’Mahony adjourned sentencing until December 11 for reports.

He warned Law that “all options would be considered” at the sentencing date.

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