Jailed: Driver with no licence or insurance but three bags of cannabis
A motorist with neither a licence nor insurance careered along a main road at more than twice the speed limit in a frantic bid to escape police, a judge heard.
Lewis Gayle reached 90mph as he hurtled southbound down Stafford Road through Bushbury in a Peugeot 206 at 10.30pm on September 8, Wolverhampton Crown Court was told.
It had been spotted by police in nearby Three Tons Lane but accelerated when ordered to stop by the traffic officers, said Mr Patrick Sullivan, prosecuting.
The car hurtled down Stafford Road before swinging into Bushbury Lane where it hit double the 30mph limit while going over speed bumps and going the wrong way round a traffic island, continued the lawyer.
The 28-year-old whose partner is expecting their first child then abandoned the Peugeot and tried unsuccessfully to run away following the two mile high speed pursuit.
Police then discovered that he had three bags of cannabis.
Mr Simon Hanns, defending, conceded: "It was an incredibly stupid thing for him to have done. It he had done what was requested by the police officers the worse that he could have expected was a short disqualification and a small fine."
Gayle, from Meir, Stoke-on-Trent, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, possession of cannabis and not having insurance or a licence and was jailed for eight months by Recorder John Edwards who told him:
"You tried to outrun the police with a very bad piece of driving and the consequences of this would have been profound if you had been involved in an accident."
