Shocking footage shows the moment a dangerous driver behind the wheel of a speeding Audi RS3 smashed into a wall, almost killing himself and his friend.
The CCTV pictures captured Tabish Khan, 23, speeding through the streets of Bradford at an estimated 100mph, in a car he was supposedly test driving, before hitting a wall, causing the car to dramatically burst into flames upon impact.
Khan was jailed at Bradford Crown Court on Friday, June 25, where a judge branded their antics “far too serious” to not result in a custodial sentence, reports YorkshireLive.
Judge Burn heard the Audi, another dark coloured car and two VW Golf vehicles had been part of a convoy that had been racing around city centre roads at around midnight on February 21 last year.
Khan and his friend Mohammed Shah were both unconscious following the crash, which was quickly attended by emergency services.
A police officer, who witnessed the cars when he was parked up at the side of the road with a speed camera device, estimated the cars were travelling at speeds of more than 100mph as they approached him. CCTV taken from the time shows the Audi, driven by Khan, veering onto the wrong side of the road before losing control on the bend.
A police car can be seen in close pursuit of the vehicles and, speaking at a sentencing hearing on Friday, prosecutor Richard Walters said the officer came across a scene of "carnage". The Audi's engine had been ripped out of the car and was left burning on the road six feet away.
Khan and his friend, Mohammed Shah, were both unconscious in the written-off Audi and the officers used a fire extinguisher to put out the burning engine. The two Golfs stopped at the scene, but drove off.
Both men were treated in hospital for multiple injuries with Mr Shah suffering fractures to his face, pelvis, legs and hip. Khan, of Moorlands Avenue, Bradford, broke his ankle, shoulder and ribs and also suffered a punctured lung. In a police interview he accepted that the crash could have been fatal and said he had nightmares about it.
At the time of the crash Khan was waiting to be dealt with by the courts for an offence of drug driving and in February this year he was sentenced for a further offence of driving while banned.
Khan pleaded guilty to causing serious injury to Mr Shah by dangerous driving and he was jailed for 27 months. He was also banned from driving for just over three years and ordered to take an extended re-test. Judge Burn told Khan: "You were both very lucky to have survived this crash.
"In any event using the public roads in the centre of Bradford as a race track is far too serious for this court to deal with it in any other way than an immediate custodial sentence."
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