An 'angry' driver who led police on a 100mph-plus motorway chase that ended with a crash on a Bradford industrial estate has been jailed for 14 months.

Balfour Padley, 31, was seen behind the wheel of a Volkswagen Passat that sped past officers heading north at junction 41 of the M1 near Wakefield at 2.30am on August 16 last year.

Prosecutor Martin Robertshaw told Bradford Crown Court that the defendant, who had a female passenger, was clocked at 100mph, but ignored police as they indicated for him to stop.

He headed west onto the M62, where he narrowly avoided crashing into a van near junction 27 at Birstall. Mr Robertshaw said that had Padley hit the van the “consequences could have been quite catastrophic.”

The defendant accelerated to 105mph as he approached junction 26 at Chain Bar, avoiding a stinger device that police had deployed to try and stop him.

Officers tried to box him in as he drove onto the M606 towards Bradford, but again he managed to veer away and continue.

Padley took the exit onto the Euroway Trading Estate and was forced to make a u-turn when confronted with a no entry sign. After making the manoeuvre, he crashed into a police car.

Padley was still revving his engine in a bid to break free, so officers smashed the windows of his Passat to drag him clear of the car. Mr Robertshaw said Padley was “abusive” to police and paramedics who were trying to attend to a cut to his head.

He said: “It was clear to police he (Padley) had been drinking. He smelt of intoxicants and his speech was slurred.”

Padley refused to give either a breath test or a blood sample. He pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and failing to provide a specimen. The court heard that Padley, of Sime Street, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, had previous convictions for drink-driving in both 2004 and 2009.

Michael Cane-Soothill, defending, said his client, a father of two, had “panicked” when he initially saw police.

He said: “He feels he has let himself and his family down.”

Imposing a three-year driving ban on Padley’s release, the Recorder of Bradford, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC, told him: “You were doing speeds well in excess of the speed limit. You were angry, abusive, and disruptive. The only inference is you had been drinking.

“In Bradford, there is established community impact material which I had to acquire because of the extreme nature and consequences of dangerous driving. This extremely grave example can only be met with immediate custody. You know, and certainly the public in Bradford know, I can only take one course of action. You’ve come all the way from Nottingham to face the music. Well, there it is.”