A TALENTED young doctor was killed by a drug-driver who ploughed into his motorbike while overtaking two cars at 87mph on a blind bend.

Dr Alex Boorman’s life was “needlessly taken and wasted” due to the “idiotic” driving of Jake Rogers, who tested positive for cannabis and had amassed ten speeding points in just 16 months before the smash.

Dr Boorman, 27, was on his way to work as a junior doctor in the orthopaedics department at York Hospital when the head-on crash he had no chance of avoiding happened.

Rogers, 22, sobbed through the hearing at Teesside Crown Court today which saw him jailed for seven-and-a-half years for the crash that left Dr Boorman’s family and his partner Alexandra Bellard distraught.

The court heard that Rogers’ 17-year-old girlfriend Olivia Thackeray, who yelled a warning to slow down, suffered life-changing injuries in the smash, and that his friend Simon Briggs was also seriously hurt.

Dr Boorman’s mother made a tearful statement to the court in which she said her “very special” son planned to work in front-line medicine in a rural hospital in South Africa.

Prosecutor Heather Gilmore told the court that other motorists had been alarmed by Rogers’ reckless driving as he went home towards Thirsk after a trip to Burger King near York.

The Vauxhall Viva was seen driving at frightening speed along an unlit section of the single carriageway A19 road close to Easingwold.

When he ploughed into Dr Boorman’s Suzuki, he was trying to overtake two cars on a right-hand bend, which he could not see around.

One driver described “a massive bang and a fireball flash and black smoke” when the vehicles collided, with the motorbike “flying around in the air”.

After the crash, Rogers was rocking back and forth saying: “Oh my God, what have I done.”

Mr Briggs – who suffered a badly broken right leg and foot – declined to make any statement afterwards but on his admission to Leeds General Infirmary, he was asked what had happened and said: “My mate was driving like a c*** end.”

Miss Thackeray suffered an injury to her kidney, a spinal fracture and was in intensive care for two days.

Dr Boorman’s mother Elizabeth Cinnamon fought back tears as she described the loss of her son, who was known as AJ.

She said: “It is virtually impossible to find adequate words to describe the unimaginable and unbearable pain of losing my son AJ. It is no exaggeration to say my heart is broken and the world has changed not just for me but for his whole family.

“He has left a gaping hole in the family and that hole will always be there. The knife just keeps on twisting and the pain never ends – a life was so needlessly taken and wasted.”

Just two months before the smash, Rogers got four points for doing 43mph in a 30mph zone and that followed convictions for speeding at 95mph in August 2016 and doing 72mph on a 60mph road in June 2017.

In a letter read to the court by his barrister Andrew Nuttall, Rogers said: “There are so many ways to describe my wrongful actions that day but none will change the pain and misery I have caused to so many people.

“I was completely responsible for what happened that night, I put so many lives in danger through my idiotic driving. My actions were unforgivable.”

Judge Simon Bourne-Arton, QC, jailed Rogers for seven-and-a-half years after he admitted causing death by dangerous driving, two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and being over a specified drug limit for cannabis.

The judge told Rogers, from Thirsk, that he had shown a “complete disregard” for the safety of his passengers, other road-users and speed limits.