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US driver ‘linked to secret service’ flees UK after crash leaves nurse unable to walk

Source: PA

A mental health nurse said she was horrified after a US citizen “associated with the secret service” left the UK after a car crash that left her unable to walk.

Elizabeth Donowho, 56, had been travelling home from work when another driver collided with her car, resulting in her being hospitalised and unable to work for six weeks.

Issac Calderon, 22, had been due to appear at Kidderminster Magistrates’ Court on 1 December, charged with causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

But it later emerged that the suspectdespite police describing

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