Danny Calladine, 35, has been jailed for driving into Dion Eagle while drunk and on cocaine before reversing back over his body, leaving him with life-threatening internal injuries22:22, 01 Jun 2026Updated 22:32, 01 Jun 2026A drunk and drug-fuelled van driver who deliberately drove over a relative before reversing back over his body has been jailed for three and a half years.‌Danny Calladine, 35, carried out the devastating attack on scaffolder Dion Eagle in Scarborough Rise, Breadsall Hilltop, near Derby, on December 19 last year, leaving him with life-threatening internal injuries.‌In a victim impact statement, Mr Eagle, who is in his mid-20s, said he missed the birth of his daughter while he was in intensive care, remains in a rehabilitation unit almost six months later and "wishes he had died that day", Derbyshire Live reports.‌He attended Derby Crown Court in a wheelchair this week to see the sentencing of the man who, as a judge put it, "irreversibly changed the course of [his] life forever".Prosecutor Lauren Fisher said the two men had been drinking together and had visited a nearby shop to buy more alcohol. However, an argument broke out on the journey back and Mr Eagle got out of the van in an attempt to "leave the situation".‌The court was shown shocking footage of the incident, which showed Mr Eagle bending down in front of the vehicle moments before Calladine drove into him, ran him over and then reversed back over his body.Ms Fisher said: "It was witnessed by a number of passing motorists, and one who stopped could see the defendant was drunk and slurring his words, saying: 'What’s going on? I have not hit anyone.'"He then dropped the keys to the van, which the witness picked up and placed in his pocket. He also noticed a can of Stella in the footwell. [That witness's daughter] then heard him on the phone saying: 'I have hit him and I don’t know what to do, I have run over him.'‌"It is estimated that Mr Eagle was trapped under the van for 15 to 20 minutes. Mr Eagle’s partner arrived and described the scene as 'carnage'. He later told the police that he thought he was going to die while under the van, saying he thought he was 'pretty much done for'."The prosecutor said Calladine told police that Mr Eagle had "smacked him" and claimed: "I would not run over my family, I would not do that. I just hope he’s okay."Tests carried out at the roadside and later in custody showed Calladine was almost three times the legal drink-drive limit and four times the legal drug-drive limit for cocaine, the court heard.‌Mr Eagle suffered multiple fractures, including two to his spine, as well as extensive internal injuries. He was placed into an induced coma multiple times and has undergone numerous operations. More than five months after the incident, he remains at Linden Lodge Neurological Rehabilitation Unit in Nottingham, where he is expected to stay for some time as he continues his recovery.In his victim impact statement, Mr Eagle said: "My legs are still useless and it is a horrible way to feel. I know it sounds selfish but I still wish I had died that day. I cry every day, I just wish the pain would stop. I feel anger that I am trapped like this while the person who did this to me is out enjoying life."Calladine, formerly of Braintree Close, Breadsall Hilltop, and now of Market Street, Ashbourne, previously pleaded guilty to causing serious injury through dangerous driving and drink-driving.‌Kevin Waddingham, mitigating, said: "It is clear he regrets enormously what happened in those few seconds and the consequences for Mr Eagle. He has lost relationships with Mr Eagle and his family which were important to him prior to this incident. It is something he will have to live with forever."Passing sentence, Judge Jonathan Straw told Calladine: "On December 19 last year, you irreversibly changed the course of Dion Eagle’s life forever, affecting your own life and the lives of countless others who care about each of you, because of the many inexplicable decisions you made that day."The footage makes for graphic and difficult viewing and, while all the horror unfolded and while Dion was lying trapped under the van, your immediate reaction was to deny what you had done.Article continues below"Dion was left there fighting for his life and it is a miracle we are not here concerned with a homicide. He is still in hospital now, six months on, and the pain and suffering he has experienced during that time is, for most of us, unimaginable."As well as the jail term, the judge disqualified Calladine from driving for 35 months and imposed a five-year restraining order.