AN “immature” driver who led police on a dangerous chase through town centre streets before crashing has been jailed for 14 months. At Bradford Crown Court Jordan Millican, prosecuting, said Adam Kay was found driving a “cloned” Toyota Yaris when he “took off” on Wakefield Road in Brighouse on the afternoon of June 19 last year. The resulting pursuit, which was captured on video, saw him driving at “excessive” speed, aggressively tailgating other vehicles, losing control around bends in the road, skidding, and driving through a restricted pedestrian road well in excess of the speed limit.
He drove through no-entry signs and went the wrong way through the busy town centre, which was full of pedestrians. In attempting to force his way through a gap in the traffic he collided with another car travelling in the opposite direction. The pursuit continued with Kay on the wrong side of the road.
He was caught when he fled the vehicle and tried to run off but tripped and fell over. When he was arrested at the scene officers discovered the car was bearing false registration plates and had been “cloned”. Three months earlier on March 10, Kay, now 23, of Crozier House, The Boulevard, Leeds, had been stopped on Mountleigh Close in Bradford by police who saw he was driving a Ford Fiesta without lights.
The car’s exhaust was also making a noise. Kay initially pulled over but then accelerated away at speed on the wrong side of the road and gave officers the slip. He was.