Speeding motorist smoked cannabis before 95mph police chase through Wolverhampton
A drugged up motorist drove at almost 100 mph - more than three times the speed limit - in a failed bid to evade police, a judge heard.
Kwame Dalila was under the influence of cannabis when he ignored a request from officers to stop and accelerated into the distance, Wolverhampton Crown Court was told.
The 20-year-old hurtled over speed bumps at more than 50mph, careered down narrow residential streets and forced other drivers to swerve out of the way while reaching 95mph in a 30 limit, explained Mr Mark Phillips, prosecuting.
Officers in an unmarked police car spotted the Favia travelling fast along Bushbury Lane around 11.20pm on March 17 and followed it.
The defendant tried to lose his pursuers by racing across two junctions and continued on a circular route around Wolverhampton's Scotlands Estate on streets that included Showell Road, Wordsworth Road, Fourth and Fifth Avenue.
The chase lasted less than three minutes before the defendant lost control and smashed into a wall in Keats Road, continued Mr Phillips.
Dalila, who had four previous convictions involving 13 separate offences, tried to run off but was cornered in a garden and 'did not go quietly' when arrested, according to the prosecutor. He tested positive for cannabis.
Mr Sunit Sandhu, defending, confessed: "This was absolute stupidity on his behalf. If he had stopped when told to he would have been in trouble over the drugs in his system but put himself in a far worse situation with his subsequent behaviour. He accepts that the driving was dangerous and makes no attempt to minimise what he did."
Father of one Dalila from Byron Road, The Scotlands pleaded guilty to offences including dangerous driving, failing to stop, driving under the influence of drugs and failing to surrender.
He was given 12 months detention in a Young Offenders Institution suspended for two years, banned from driving for two years and ordered to do 200 hours unpaid work.
Recorder Greg Pryce told him: "You drove through narrow residential streets at speeds between 75 and 95 mph, sometimes on the wrong side of the road, with other cars swerving to avoid you.
"The fact that nobody was injured or worse had nothing to do with you. This was due to the skills and diligence of others. You were under the influence of cannabis."
