A woman left fighting for her life after being impaled on a metal railing has attacked the sentence given to the drink-driver responsible.

Mother-of-two Marion Ball, 52, is still trying to come to terms with her serious injuries the loss of sight in one eye due to nerve damage and a shattered pelvis, knee and ankle.

She cannot go back to work at medical supplies firm DBT Medical Ltd in Witney or drive. She has to wear an eyepatch or frosted glasses, and use crutches.

Driver Robert White's Peugeot 405 hit Mrs Ball, flinging her into the air. She landed on a metal fence outside Witney's Tamarind Bay restaurant in the High Street and one of the spikes pierced the top of her thigh. White, 35, drove off without stopping.

This week, the maintenance manager, of Wadards Meadow, Witney, pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol and failing to stop after an accident.

Witney magistrates were told that White was more than twice above the legal limit of 35 micrograms of alcohol in 100 mililitres of breath. They sentenced him to four months prison and disqualified him from driving for four years.

With good behaviour he could be free again in two months, and his driving ban could be reduced under a rehabilitation scheme.

Mrs Ball, of Early Road, Witney, said: "I am outraged at the sentence.

"The law has to be changed. People who commit minor crimes are sent away for longer. It makes the lives of victims like me so cheap. I could have died.