A dangerous driver called 'Skidmore' led police on a car chase in which he travelled at 130mph-plus on the M5. And when a police stinger device burst one of his tyres he carried on regardless, Bristol Crown Court heard.
Declan Skidmore, 21, of Coleridge Vale Road South in Clevedon, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving without a proper licence and insurance and failing to stop for police in February. He appeared for sentence today (October 25, 2022).
The Recorder of Bristol His Honour Judge Peter Blair KC handed him a 10-month prison sentence suspended for 18 months. He told Skidmore: "This was a truly terrifying piece of driving. It would have left people speechless in seeing the way you risked other lives and your own. You simply didn't appreciate the consequences to yourself and to others."
