Carl Prior, 41, led officers on a half-hour high speed chase through North Yorkshire, hitting 90mph in one village, York Crown Court heard.
He had taken cocaine, was banned from the roads and was on a suspended prison sentence for dangerous driving and other motoring offences.
“You are extremely fortunate that you didn’t kill anyone,” the Recorder of York, Judge Sean Morris, told him. “If you continue to drive like this, one day you are going to kill. I think you need to be off the road for a long, long time.”
He jailed Prior for 23 months including six months of the suspended prison sentence and banned him from driving for 45 months.
Prior, who pleaded guilty to dangerous driving on the basis that he didn’t incite the police into chasing him, driving whilst disqualified and without insurance and two charges of drug driving, will have to take an extended driving test before driving alone again.
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