Police-chase driver ignored blowout

A MOTORIST being pursued by police carried on driving even after one of his tyres had a blowout.

Kamran Ali Khan had already collided with one unmarked police car and was weaving in and out of traffic on the loop road in the centre of Wakefield at speeds up to 60mph before the damage occurred.

But he then continued to try to shake off a chasing police car by going through sets of traffic lights on red and past a traffic island on the wrong side of the road, James Lake, prosecuting, told Leeds Crown Court yesterday.

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At one stage he drove under a bridge next to Westgate railway station and on to the opposite side of the road into oncoming traffic before turning into a residential area ignoring the 30mph limit.

"At this point he lost his front nearside tyre completely and rammed into another vehicle in his way" before finally stopping. He tried to run away but was caught.

Khan, 19, of Balfour Street, East Bowling, Bradford, was sent to a young offender institution for 14 months and banned from driving for two years after he admitted dangerous driving, having no insurance and a driving licence offence on July 24 and being in breach of a community order.

Sentencing him, Recorder Patrick Palmer said he put other motorists at risk and it was fortunate for him no one was seriously injured.

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Mr Lake said two officers in an unmarked police car spotted Khan around 10am in his Renault Megane in Greenwood Road and were suspicious because they recognised he was from the Bradford area.

They decided to speak to him but when they pulled the car in front of where he was parked he immediately accelerated and rammed the vehicle as he drove off at speed into Stanley Road towards Pinderfields Hospital.

They did not follow but alerted other officers and when one saw Khan pass her in Stanley Road she began to follow.

Ken Green for Khan said he had not realised the first car contained police officers and believed it was someone intending to harm him but he had realised it was the police when the officer activated her siren.

At the time Khan was not insured to drive his vehicle and panicked. "He simply dug a deeper hole for himself."

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