A TEENAGE girl has been jailed for throwing cartons of orange juice from a motorway bridge.
Laura Gibbard caused a pregnant woman to crash into a tree after after hitting her windscreen with one of the containers.
The 19-year-old from of Thames Drive, Fareham, threw the drinks from a bridge over the M27 near Red Barn Lane, Fareham.
Some of the cartons hit a Vauxhall Zafira driven by a Chichester woman who was 15 weeks pregnant, as well as a Volvo car and a lorry, around 11pm on November 19, 2008.
The pregnant woman and her unborn child did not suffer any serious injuries.
Gibbard was sentenced to nine months in prison after admitting one count of causing a danger on the roads.
She did not provide a reason for throwing the cartons off the bridge, but Gibbard's solicitor, Steve Tricker, said his client had written a letter of apology to the pregnant woman.
Sergeant Andrew Lynch, said: "This has to be one of the most stupid things you can do close to a road."
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