A BANNED drink-driver was chased at high speed through the streets of Aspley and Broxtowe after he scraped a police car in a pub car park.
Officers were in the car park of the Newcastle Arms, Aspley, when they saw banned driver Shane Smith in a Ford Mondeo.
He tried to edge past the officer's car but scraped the vehicle down the side, Nottingham Crown Court was told.
One uniformed officer recognised Smith as being a disqualified driver and knocked on the car's window to speak with him.
Despite the officer shouting to him to stop, the 27-year-old drove off along the streets of Aspley and Broxtowe on April 27 this year.
Jon Fountain, prosecuting, said Smith reached speeds of 60mph to 70mph as police gave chase.
In Broxtowe Lane a police officer thought his vehicle was going to be rammed by Smith.
Smith swerved around the car and carried on, believing he had shaken off police in Westleigh Road, Broxtowe Estate.
However, the Mondeo was tracked by CCTV cameras, allowing police to follow Smith to his hiding place behind a caravan.
A breathalyser test revealed 74 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35.
In court, he admitted dangerous driving, driving when disqualified, drink-driving, driving without insurance and possessing cannabis.
Judge Michael Stokes Recorder of Nottingham, sentenced him to 16 months in custody. He also banned him from driving for three years and ordered his licence be endorsed with penalty points.
The judge ordered that Smith must take an extended driving test if he ever wanted to drive again.
He told Smith, of Silverhill Close, Strelley: "On April 27, when you were a disqualified driver and had been drinking, you got, apparently, into someone else's vehicle and scraped it in the car park of the pub on another vehicle. You were observed by a uniformed officer, who recognised you as a disqualified driver.
"You could have got out of the car then and run for it but, instead, you took part in a high-speed, highly dangerous, piece of driving through Aspley and Broxtowe."
In mitigation, Emma Coverley said: "He panicked when he saw the police and started the car and drove the vehicle on the roads he knew."
