A driver who ploughed head-on into another car at a blind summit, killing the other driver, was jailed for four years and five months today.

Judge Lord Turnbull said Sohail Mohammed had been involved in an "outrageous piece of driving".

The High Court in Glasgow heard Mohammed overtook another car on Kennishead Road, Nitshill, despite a road sign warning against overtaking.

Witnesses described hearing an explosion as Mohammed, 23, smashed into mechanic Michael Robertson's Fiat Uno.

Mr Robertson, 51, who was driving on his own side of the road, had no chance to react or take evasive action as Mohammed's car crested the summit.

When the cars hit each other, Mohammed's vehicle lifted into the air and rotated before coming to a halt on the same side of the road as the dead man's wrecked car.

Mr Robertson, of Maybole Street, Nitshill, died instantly from extensive internal and external injuries. Firefighters had to use cutting equipment to free him.

Mohammed, a customer services adviser, of McCulloch Street, Pollokshields, admitted causing Mr Robertson's death on January 18 last year by driving his father's Toyota Celica on the wrong side of the road at a blind summit.

In addition to causing Mr Robertson's death, Mohammed's passengers, a 22-year-old woman and her four-year-old son, were injured in the collision.

The mum suffered a fractured wrist and thigh, and the child needed 14 stitches in a head wound.

Mohammed's only injury was a broken kneecap.

A breath test proved negative for alcohol and he made no comment when asked about how the accident occurred.

Solicitor advocate Des Finnieston said Mohammed was filled with remorse over his "awful, rash, and reckless" decision to overtake.

He stressed, however, there had been no evidence of bad or fast driving before the accident.