A DANGEROUS driver flipped his automobile whereas being chased by police and landed the other way up on a parked automobile.
Dramatic CCTV footage of the collision was proven in courtroom earlier than 25-year-old Levi Cull was sentenced to 14 months in jail.
Bolton Crown Court docket heard how Cull was behind the wheel of a Mercedes on March 28, taking it for a “check drive” as his brother was contemplating shopping for the car.
However Cull, who was convicted of his first driving offence aged simply 14, had no driving licence or insurance coverage and tried to duck down within the driver’s seat when police noticed the car on Bridgeman Road, Bolton at 2.30pm.
His behaviour raised suspicions and so the black Mercedes was adopted.
Harriet Lavin, prosecuting, advised how the automobile accelerated closely, reaching speeds of 60mph on the incorrect aspect of the street.
After dashing by way of a pink gentle at a busy junction it headed down aspect streets at as much as 40mph.
On Gibbon Road Cull tried to overhaul taxi driver Shabbir Chauhan’s Toyota Auris however hit it, shunting it right into a parked automobile
“The influence of the collision precipitated the Mercedes to roll over. It accomplished a full rotation and got here to a cease, the other way up, after colliding with a fence and one other car,” stated Miss Lavin.
CCTV from a home confirmed the incident with the Mercedes touchdown, incorrect means up, on high of Shahid Ahmed’s parked automobile.
PC Daniel Graham, who had been following the Mercedes, rushed to the crashed automobile and helped Cull and his passenger, Nasim Ali, out of the wreckage.
Mr Ali was taken to hospital however just isn’t thought to have been severely injured and Cull was arrested.
The courtroom heard how Cull, of Langshaw Stroll, Bolton, has 10 earlier convictions together with some for automobile crime. One dated again to when he was aged 14 was convicted of driving and not using a licence.
Cull pleaded responsible to committing the newest offences – harmful driving and driving and not using a licence or insurance coverage. He appeared in courtroom a video hyperlink from jail for sentencing.
Nick Ross, defending appealed to the Honorary Recorder of Bolton, Choose Martin Walsh, to droop a jail sentence.
“He has lots of rising as much as do. He holds his fingers up in that regard,” he stated.
He confused that the pursuit had lasted lower than a minute and Cull had not been ingesting or taking medicine.
“In fact, the implications had been dramatic however thankfully, and clearly by dint of exceptional luck, there have been no severe penalties when it comes to harm or worse,” Mr Ross added.
“He understands this might have led to catastrophic and tragic circumstances and he’s a really fortunate younger man that he’s not earlier than the courtroom for way more severe offences.”
However Choose Walsh commented that he had learn a probation report which states that Cull “continues to reveal threatening and abusive behaviours involving a variety of people relying upon his circumstances at any cut-off date” and he poses a excessive danger of significant hurt.
The decide advised Cull that solely a right away jail sentence could possibly be justified and imprisoned him for 14 months.
He was banned from driving for 3 years and 7 months, after which he should take an prolonged driving check.
Cull swore and stormed out of the video hyperlink room after listening to the sentence and so Choose Walsh ordered that he seem earlier than him once more on Thursday when he’ll contemplate whether or not to impose an extra penalty for contempt of courtroom.
