Man Utd crash pair behind bars

Two Manchester United players who took part in a high-speed road race which caused a crash and left two people hurt were today imprisoned.

Mads Timm, 20, and 19-year-old Callum Flanagan sped along a 40mph road in Partington, Manchester, after finishing a training session at around 1pm on January 14 last year. They had been racing along roads in convoy at high speed when the crash happened.

Today at Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court, Timm was sentenced to 12 months in a young offenders' institution and Flanagan was sentenced to eight months. They were both also disqualified from driving for three years.

The court heard how Timm and Flanagan used their high-powered cars to race each other after leaving Manchester United's Carrington training ground. Flanagan lost control of his black Honda Civic on a bend and crashed with another car driven by Angela Bourne.

She suffered heel and knee injuries and a passenger in Flanagan's car, team-mate Phil Marsh, 17, had to be cut from the wreckage.
Flanagan, described in court as a "boy racer" admitted dangerous driving but Timm denied the charge.
The seven-man, five-woman jury took less than an hour to convict Timm of dangerous driving at his trial last month.
Timm, from Bowden, Cheshire, driving a powerful silver Mitsubishi Evolution, led the chase and drove round a right-hand bend.
Flanagan, of Ludgate Hill, Manchester, followed in his Honda Civic but lost control of the car and collided with the oncoming vehicle.
Witnesses reported seeing the players exchanging taunts and gesticulating to one another prior to the crash.
The youngsters, both dressed in suits, showed no emotion as the sentences were read out, but Timm's family, sitting in the public gallery, gasped with shock.