Driver left two rugby players with life changing injuries

A driver who left two teenage rugby players with life threatening injuries after he lost control of his car during a 100mph race has been jailed for 31 months. Peter Blade, 44, was driving his two children and two of their friends to a Sunday match in wet conditions when an Audi A3 overtook him on the A13 between Dagenham and Wennington, Essex. Blade accelerated, lost control of his red Corsa and ended up in the ditch, Snaresbrook Crown Court…