A drugged-up driver led police on a 20-mile high-speed chase during which he deliberately hit three cop cars. Chip shop worker Jamie Adams raced along Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire roads at speeds touching 110mph and even after having the front tyres of his car punctured by police continued to drive at breakneck speeds on just the bare rims of the wheels. At one stage he slammed into the side of a police car which had parked across the road to block his path.
When police managed to box in the defendant's car and bring the pursuit to an end he was found to have a cocktail of drugs in his system including ketamine, cocaine, cannabis and Valium with the reading for ketamine being 14 times over the legal driving limit.
Swansea Crown Court heard the chase took place in the early hours of April 12 this year and began with what appeared to be a routine traffic stop on the A477 near Stepaside in Pembrokeshire. Tom Scapens, prosecuting, said at first Adams seemed compliant and cooperative but when an officer leaned into his car through the open driver's door to talk to him there was a strong smell of cannabis. Without warning Adams started the engine of his BMW and drove off with the officer still leaning through the door and the prosecutor said there was "a real risk the officer could have been dragged under the car and far more serious injury caused". As the 31-year-old defendant drove away he collided with the rear off-side of the police car which was parked in front of him.
