A drink-driver who killed a woman when she ploughed into her vehicle at high speed while she was using a mobile phone has been jailed for six years.
Sarah Taylor, 23, was driving at 95mph when she collided head-on with the broken-down car of Melanie Lee, 35, Preston Crown Court heard.
Moments before, Miss Lee, of Heaton Park, Manchester, had lost control of her BMW mini convertible on the motorway and came to rest facing the wrong way.
The victim had been returning from visiting her parents in Glasgow when her vehicle spun out of control on the M61 near Brindle, Lancashire, swerved from lane to lane and hit the central reservation barrier.
She was attempting to climb out of the window of her damaged car when Taylor's Fiat Stilo struck and sent her flying out of the car.
Witnesses at the crash scene said the impact was so severe that it "sounded like a bomb had gone off".
Miss Lee, a pensions manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers, died from multiple internal injuries.
The first thing that Taylor, of Blackley, Manchester, said after the collision was "I was on my phone, I was on my phone."
Judge Norman Wright told her that her "grotesque piece of driving had snuffed out the life of this woman".
He said the message must go out to the public that cars could be lethal weapons if not driven properly and that people should never use hand-held mobile phones when driving.
