A FLEEING driver squeezed between two lorries and jumped four sets of red lights during a car chase that reached 74mph in a built-up area, Bradford Crown Court heard today.

Michael Nolan, 24, led police on a seven minute pursuit along Bradford Road to Chain Bar Roundabout and on to Cleckheaton Road and across to Oxley Gardens, Low Moor, Bradford.

He pleaded guilty to dangerous driving on April 1 and having no licence or insurance.

Nolan, now of Cooper Lane, Buttershaw, Bradford, was sentenced to eight months imprisonment, suspended for two years, with a four month curfew order and a 50 day probation service rehabilitation activity.

Prosecutor David Lampitt said Nolan drove on grass verges, pavements and on the wrong side of the road during the pursuit, in wet weather across the middle of the day. He was clocked doing up to 74mph in a 30 zone.

Nolan's solicitor advocate, Alistair Bateman, said he was homeless at the time and taking cocaine.

He sustained a serious brain injury when he was knocked off his bicycle aged 13 that had left him with life-changing cognitive impairment.

Nolan was a good father to his two children and had the support of his brother, who had offered him a home.

Judge Mark Savill banned Nolan from driving for 18 months and reserved any breach of the sentence to himself.