A man has been jailed for four years for a crash that turned an “active” grandad-of-four into an amputee
Callum Knott, a 41-year-old dad, crashed into three cars during a series of incidents in Nottingham on September 28, 2025. His dangerous driving caused a “catastrophic” crash in Valley Road in the Sherwood area, which left Stephen Kerry, 65, an amputee and a mum and daughter seriously injured. Mr Kerry remains in hospital more than three months after the incident.
Driving his van “angrily and selfishly”, Knott crashed into a car containing a mum and three 12-year-old girls, forcing them into oncoming traffic, where they hit the car driven by Mr Kerry head-on. Nottinghamshire Police has now released a custody image of Knott, who fled from the scene and handed himself in two days after the incident.
Mr Kerry, who had been visiting his wife Karen in hospital ahead of her heart surgery, suffered fractures to his shoulder, thigh bone, many ribs and significant chest injuries which required emergency surgery. The keen fisherman and gardener was placed in an induced coma and kept in the intensive care unit for several weeks, Nottinghamshire Live reports.
But the grandfather-of-four’s seriously injured right leg did not recover sufficiently and he underwent an above-the-knee amputation three weeks after the collision.
