A coked-up driver rammed into a police car in a Co-op car park and then made off round the block in his dad’s BMW 4x4 during a trip 'to the chippy'.
Cops spotted 38-year-old Alan Greenhow behind the wheel of the BMW X6 on Dickson Road, in Blackpool, while he was banned from driving. The police followed Greenhow into the car park of a Co-op supermarket, and used their car to block him into a parking space.
However Greenhow, who was under the influence of cocaine at the time, used BMW car to force his way out - damaging the police car and injuring an officer’s arm in the process. Greenhow then drove around the block, colliding with a moving vehicle before losing control and crashing into two parked cars, Lancs Live reports.
The vehicle he was driving was badly damaged and Greenhow was arrested at the scene, explained prosecutor Paul Brookwell during the hearing at Preston Crown Court. He also told the court Greenhow, of Palacefields, Runcorn, has motoring convictions dating back to 2006. He has been banned from driving on four previous occasions and was disqualified at the time of the offence on March 23, 2023.
Harriet Tighe, defending, said Greenhow had been working to address his drugs problems and knows he should have stopped before the incident with the police escalated.
Sentencing, Judge Philip Parry said: “You told me yourself you just jumped into the car to go to the chippy, but from February, when you were disqualified, you really should have known that when you were out in Blackpool with your partner you shouldn't have got behind the wheel of your father’s BMW X6.
“You and your partner had had an argument and the police were made aware that they needed to arrest you. They were on the lookout and they came across you at the Co-op in Dickson Road. You rammed the police car from a standing start to drive off the car park. You caused injury to the arm of the police officer into whom you drove.”
The court heard at the time of the offence Greenhow did not have a valid insurance policy.
Judge Parry sentenced him to 14 months for dangerous driving, with four months for driving while disqualified and two months each for drug driving and failing to stop, to run concurrently. He also endorsed Greenhow’s licence for the offence of driving without insurance.
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