An award-winning Bristol policeman "worn down" by racial abuse in the job led colleagues on a high-speed chase in which he smashed into two cars and injured another driver. Cliff Young had worked for Avon and Somerset Police for two years when he got behind the wheel of his mum's car, drunk, after pressures at work had led him to consider suicide.
In a pursuit which lasted just three minutes Young, 31, of Stonebridge Park, crashed into two other vehicles at high speeds before stopping on the hard shoulder of a motorway after damaging his car. Alcohol bottles, one of which was completely empty, were found in the car following his arrest, while the vehicles he had hit were written off with a driver left injured.
Young, who no longer works for the police force, appeared at Cardiff Crown Court for sentence after the incident occurred nearly two years ago. He previously pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, WalesOnline reports.
