A driver and his dog carried on tearing through the streets after his airbag exploded and windscreen smashed after his Vauxhall Astra hit a bus. Mark Williamson, 50, of Luther Close, St Ann's, drove into the side of a Trent Barton bus, with three passengers on-board, in Canal Street, Nottingham city centre, at 1.10pm on June 28, 2019, Nottingham Crown Court heard.
The bus driver, who suffered cuts and grazes and went to hospital with whiplash, saw Williamson's airbag explode. Despite this, the unlicensed and uninsured driver managed to make it to St Ann's Well Road.
A police officer saw Williamson's damaged car, with its exhaust hanging down and shattered windscreen, and put on his police car's lights and siren. But Williamson pulled onto the opposite side of the road and accelerated in the direction of St Ann's Police Station.
