A man rammed into a police car in a Co-op car park when trying to escape officers.
Alan Greenhow said he was on the way to the chippy on March 23 this year, when police spotted him driving illegally. The 38-year-old was out in his dad's BMW X6 but he was banned from getting behind the wheel.
Greenhow, of Palacefields, Runcorn, who was also under the influence of cocaine, used the car to force his way out out the Co-op car park, on Dickson Road, Blackpool. He smashed into the police car that had blocked him into a parking space.
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He damaged the police car and injured an officer’s arm during the incident, Preston Crown Court heard. Greenhow then drove around the block, colliding with a moving vehicle before losing control and crashing into two parked cars.
The car he was driving was badly damaged and Greenhow was arrested at the scene, LancsLive reports. Paul Brookwell, prosecuting, told the court Greenhow has motoring convictions dating back to 2006. He has been banned from driving on four previous occasions and was disqualified at the time of the offence on March 23, 2023.
Harriet Tighe, defending, told the court Greenhow had been working to address his drugs problems and knows he should have stopped before the incident with the police escalated. Sentencing, Judge Philip Parry said: "You told me yourself you just jumped into the car to go to the chippy, but from February, when you were disqualified, you really should have known that when you were out in Blackpool with your partner you shouldn't have got behind the wheel of your father’s BMW X6.
"You and your partner had had an argument and the police were made aware that they needed to arrest you. They were on the lookout and they came across you at the Co-op in Dickson Road. You rammed the police car from a standing start to drive off the car park. You caused injury to the arm of the police officer into whom you drove."
Judge Parry sentenced him to 14 months for dangerous driving, with four months for driving while disqualified and two months each for drug driving and failing to stop, to run concurrently. He also endorsed Greenhow’s licence for the offence of driving without insurance.
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