Banned driver hit garden wall after 90mph chase
A disqualified driver who drove at 90mph during a police chase before hitting a garden wall has been jailed.
After smashing the back window of the flipped VW Golf and attempting to escape, Liam Woods was arrested in a nearby garden in Gomersal Hill Top, Kirklees.
The 25-year-old told officers, who had followed him from Tong Road, Bradford, that he âwould have smoked you if I had known where I was goingâ.
Woods, of Kirkdale Crescent, Farnley, Leeds, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and driving without insurance, and was sentenced to 16 months in prison at Bradford Crown Court earlier.
Woods was wanted on recall to prison for an earlier dangerous driving sentence at the time.
He ran red lights at up to 70mph, hit 90mph on ânarrow, windingâ roads, and drove towards oncoming traffic, causing other drivers to swerve.
His female passenger managed to climb out of the wrecked car after it hit the garden wall and landed on its roof at about 21:30 BST on 5 December.
Sergeant Sam Brown of West Yorkshire Police said Woods was driving âcompletely recklessly and dangerouslyâ.
âIt was only by a sheer miracle that no one was seriously injured or killed,â he added.
The collision destroyed a bus stop and a telegraph pole.
The court heard how in January 2023 he was jailed for two years and disqualified after causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
Judge Jonathan Gibson told Woods via a prison video link that he was âclearly a very highly dangerous personâ when behind the wheel.
He was banned again from driving for two years and eight months and must pass an extended driving test.
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