A teenager was described as being 'almost a lost cause' as he was sentenced for leading police on a 90mph chase through residential streets. Rocky Price was told it was lucky he did not kill anybody during the high-speed chase through Newark in June, in what one officer described as "the worst standard of driving he had ever seen" in his 18 years of service.
Price, 18 and of no fixed address, was already disqualified and without insurance when he was spotted by police officers out on mobile patrol at around 9.20pm on June 14 this year. Officers had to quickly accelerate to catch up to Price who was already driving at 65mph in a 30mph zone, refusing to stop when two police cars blared their sirens instructing him to pull over.
What followed was a "high-speed car chase over a considerable distance", Lucy Jones, prosecuting, told Nottingham Crown Court. "This was through areas with heavy traffic and pedestrians," she said.
