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Driver sentenced for killing cousin in crash after huffing nitrous oxide balloon

A British courier who was filmed huffing down a nitrous oxide balloon before driving his van into a ravine and killing his teenage cousin was sentenced to nearly eight years in prison Monday.

Cameron Hughes, 23, was under the influence of laughing gas and using his phone when he “failed to negotiate” a bend on a highway north of Manchester in July, plunging his Mercedes Sprinter van into a ravine 15 feet below, Lancashire Constables said in a press release.

Hughes’ passenger and cousin Bonny Barrow, 15, suffered serious injures and died a day later, police said. He was relatively unharmed.

Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/10/31/news/driver-sentenced-for-killing-cousin-in-crash-after-huffing-nitrous-oxide-balloon/

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