A St. John’s man has been convicted of several serious driving offences after a spectacular crash that almost killed his fiancé.

It happened late afternoon, in June 2023, just east of the Carrick Drive overpass on the Outer Ring Road.

Dash cam footage shows a red Hyundai Santa Fe speed past a truck, swerve off the road and up a bank, then flip several times before landing back on its wheels on the road.

Thirty-eight-year-old Daniel Ozon was charged almost three months later with impaired and dangerous driving causing bodily harm, as well as failing to stay at the scene, after he fled on foot but was found hiding in a nearby garbage bin.

Ozon suffered minor injuries, but his 26-year-old girlfriend was thrown from the SUV and found in a ditch with serious injuries, which she continues to recover from.

At the time, Ozon was suspended from driving and under court orders to stay away from the woman, who insisted she was the one behind the wheel.

But Judge Bruce Short didn’t buy it, citing overwhelming evidence to the contrary — namely eye witness accounts and contradictions in testimony, not to mention Ozon’s blood on the driver-side airbag.

Said the judger: Their evidence had no air of reality and was completely at odds with the inescapable conclusion that Ozon was the driver.

Sentencing in the case is set for May 5th.