A motorcyclist drove at speeds of up to 70mph as he was pursued by cops through the Springkerse area of Stirling.
During the chase, on June 6 this year, banned driver Cameron Mackenzie mounted a Kerse Road roundabout as well as a pavement on Millhall Road before losing control of the unregistered motorbike.
The 25-year-old, of Airthrey Avenue, Bridge of Allan, had admitted a charge of dangerous driving at excessive speed – as well as charges of driving while disqualified and without insurance.
Fiscal depute Lindsey Brooks told Stirling Sheriff Court on Wednesday police officers had spotted Mackenzie at 12.25pm in Springkerse.
When they followed him Mackenzie “accelerated harshly”. The police car’s siren and blue lights were activated.
Mackenzie was driving at “high speed” on Kerse Road - at appoximately 70mph - towards the roundabout at Craigleith Drive and entered it on the opposite carriageway before mounting and crossing the roundabout itself.
He then drove east along on Kerse Road and turned into Millhall Road where he drove onto a footpath and lost control of the vehicle.
Mackenzie then made off on foot.
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Officers retrieved the motorbike. Ms Brooks added that a description of Mackenzie was passed to other officers and police caught up with him in Wallace Avenue in Braehead.
Dashcam footage of the matter had been recorded, added the fiscal depute.
Not guilty pleas to charges of failing to stop for a police officer and breaching motorcycle regulations by not wearing a protective helmet had been accepted by the Crown.
Mackenzie’s agent Frazer McCready told Sheriff Keith O’Mahony that his client should have stopped that day, but panicked when spotted by the police.
He described Mackenzie’s actions as “pathetic behaviour”.
While the accused did not have any previous convictions for dangerous driving, he did have for careless driving.
The father-of-one, Mr McCready added, “did not have any major difficulty with drugs or alcohol.”
Sheriff O’Mahony told Mackenzie that the matter before the court was a serious example of dangerous driving.
He sentenced him to a community payback order on that charge – comprising two years’ supervision and 225 hours’ unpaid work to be completed within 12 months – as a direct alternative to custody.
He was also banned from driving for three years. Mackenzie was admonished on the charges of driving while disqualified and without insurance and his licence was endorsed.
