Motorist high on drugs spotted doing laps of Wolverhampton roundabout after losing his glasses
A motorist high on drugs who lost his glasses before getting behind the wheel failed to stop after two accidents, a judge heard.
Martin Bolding was spotted doing 'laps ' of a Wolverhampton roundabout, the city's crown court was told.
"He was going round and round without taking an exit," Mr David Bennett, prosecuting, said.
Stephen King patiently waited to join the traffic island in Oxley Moor Road, Oxley, until the Ford Focus stopped rotating.
Then he headed into Bladen Road where 47-year-old Bolding overtook him at speed before suddenly stopping with his car slewed across the carriageway forcing the other driver to halt.
Mr King squeezed past the stationary Focus which soon reappeared in his rear view mirror as he travelled down The Droveway in Pendeford shortly after midnight on June 20.
Mr Bennett said: "The Focus pulled out to overtake and deliberately rammed the side of the other car causing considerable damage before driving off at high speed."
Shortly afterwards residents saw it crash into a parked car and garden wall in Burland Avenue, Tettenhall where it was abandoned after Bolding unsuccessfully tried to restart the engine.
He escaped on foot but police - alerted by an eye witness - quickly found the defendant stripped to the waist and looking 'very agitated and unsteady on his feet' in Aldersley Road, concluded the prosecutor. Bolding was arrested but declined to give a specimen to test for drink or drugs.
Mr David Swinnerton, defending, conceded: "He was in no fit state to be in a car. He was under the influence of cannabis and had left his glasses behind. He jumped into the car after an argument but should not have gone near the vehicle. He was not trying to intimidate Mr King who unfortunately was in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Bolding from The Cornfield, Pendeford admitted dangerous driving and failing to give a specimen and was given a four month jail sentence suspended for 18 months and banned from driving for two years with £1,200 costs by Recorder Paul Atkinson who told him: "The danger of what you did that night has now been brought home to you by your own accident."
