Suspected drink driver leads police on 45-minute chase after leaving pub in Yorkshire

North Yorkshire Police was contacted by a concerned member of the public who alerted them to a man believed to have been driving home after drinking in pubs around Malton on Monday (Feb 17).

Officers found the driver of a white Vauxhall Astra van at 11.42pm as it was travelling towards North Grimston on the B1248, but the vehicle did not stop when asked to by police and headed for the county border.

Those involved in the chase made Humberside Police aware and then continued the chase through Driffield town centre and onto the B1249 to North Frodingham.

The van eventually stopped shortly before 12.30am after it went down a dead end at the south of the village.

The driver, a 44-year-old man from Malton, was arrested and taken into custody. He has since been charged with; drink-driving with 93 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath (the legal limit is 35 micrograms of alcohol); dangerous driving; failing to stop for the police; driving without a licence for the class of vehicle and driving without insurance for the class of vehicle.

He has been released on bail and is due to appear at Scarborough Magistrates Court on March 6.