'You are lucky you did not kill somebody. You need to start growing up'
25.04.2024 - 07:01
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A judge told a young dad to 'grow up' after stating his 'reckless driving' was some of the worst he had ever seen.
Shane Oliver led police on five-minute chase in a Range Rover Evoque, reaching speeds of up to 90mph, the Liverpool Echo reports. The 22-year-old drove the wrong way around roundabouts and drove into oncoming traffic on dual-carriageway before eventually smashing the car into a wall of a pub's beer garden.
A judge said clips of the chase were some 'of the most appalling, dangerous and reckless driving I have ever had to watch'. He said it was lucky that no-one was killed in the incident.
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Liverpool Crown Court heard on Wednesday (April 25) how patrols spotted the Range Rover Evoque on Pendle Drive in Ormskirk at around 1.30pm on July 26 last year. When the vehicle's detailed were checked, officers found that only two women and a man in his 60s were insured to drive the car and decided to follow it upon observing that the driver was in his 20s.
Derek Jones, prosecuting, described how Oliver then made off at speed. A pursuit then persisted over the following five minutes, during which time he drove the wrong way through junctions, anti-clockwise around a roundabout and at speeds of up to 80mph in residential areas.
Dashcam footage captured by the pursuing police car showed him reaching 90mph on the A59 and travelling into oncoming traffic on the dual carriageway. He also ran a red light and narrowly avoided crashes with other vehicles, a pedestrian and a cyclist.
The chase only ended when Oliver crashed the car, which his girlfriend was said to have purchased using inheritance money, into the rear of