Cowardly driver who fled scene of West Bromwich crash is banned for 15 months
A judge called a man who led police on a chase through streets 'a coward' after he fled from the scene of a crash that injured two women.
Mohammed Nazir, aged 31, drove at more than 50mph through residential streets before colliding with a Ford KA in Great Bridge Street, in West Bromwich.
He pleaded guilty to a charge of dangerous driving at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Friday.
Nazir, of Beeches Road, Rowley Regis, was driving a Skoda Octavia which had been involved in the theft of £65 fuel from a nearby petrol station.
Miss Siobhan Collins, prosecuting, said "Officers activated the blue lights and their sirens and the defendant ignored these and continued along John Street.
"The streets have a speed limit of 30mph but he was driving in excess of 51mph.
"When he reached Great Bridge Street he collided with a Ford KA which was carrying two women."
Mr Tom Schofield, defending, said: "This was a very short dangerous driving offence that lasted only for a matter of minutes". The women injured in the crash suffered bruising and whiplash and have been on medication since the smash, the court heard.
Sentencing Nazir to a 11-month sentence suspended for two years, Mr Recorder Christopher Goodchild told him: "At the end of the day you ran away like a coward."
He was also banned from driving for 15 months and ordered to pay £1,500 in court costs.
