A DRIVER who killed an “outstanding” young doctor when he ploughed into his motorbike while trying to overtake on a bend has been jailed for seven and a half years.

Dr Alex Boorman, 27, from Thirsk, had his “bright future” at York Hospital cut short when he was killed while riding his motorcycle to work on the A19 Easingwold Bypass on December 7, 2017.

Teesside Crown Court heard how Jake Rogers, 22, had been prosecuted for speeding three times before the crash and had been driving a Vauxhall Viva at 87mph in a 60mph zone at the time of the accident. Two passengers in the car with Rogers were badly injured in the collision.

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, the court heard.

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.”

Dr Boorman’s mother Liz Cinnamon read a statement to the court, describing her family’s devastating 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.”

Dr Boorman’s partner Alex Bellard paid tribute to him following his death, saying: “My world is broken.”

York Hospital also praised the “caring” doctor, with James Stanley, clinical director for the Trauma and Orthopaedics department where Dr Boorman worked, saying: “He was hard-working, bright, supportive to his team members, and a caring doctor with a brilliant future ahead of him.”

Rogers, from Thirsk, North Yorkshire, but whose address on the court file was Chertsey, in Surrey, admitted causing death by dangerous driving, two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and driving while over the limit for cannabis.

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.”

Andrew Nuttall, mitigating, told Judge Simon Bourne-Arton, QC: “He realises what he has done has devastated one family, in truth, two families including his own.

“He is going to have to live with this for the rest of his life. That’s going to be some burden for a very long time.”

Judge Bourne-Arton told him he had shown “a complete disregard” for the safety of his passengers and other road users.