A COCAINE-fuelled driver who smashed into another vehicle while on the wrong side of the road in a police chase has been jailed for six months.

Kaddar Hussain, 30, scrambled over the bonnet of one of the pursuing patrol cars in a bid to escape on foot but was caught after he slipped and fell, Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday.

Hussain, of Owl Street, Lawkholme, Keighley, was unsteady on his feet and tested positive for cocaine.

He pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and possession of the Class A drug following the blue light pursuit from the A650 into Keighley on December 27 last year.

The court heard the police wanted to stop the Vauxhall Astra Hussain was driving because it had been bought with counterfeit currency a couple of days earlier.

Prosecutor Clare Walsh said the police chase began at 7.10pm and involved two marked patrol vehicles.

When officers activated their sirens and blue lights, Hussain accelerated away on Emily Street, jumping a red light at the junction of Bradford Street and Bingley Street.

On Marlborough Street, a woman crossing the road had to step back on to the kerb to avoid being struck.

Mrs Walsh said that Hussain went at up to 50mph on Brown Street, Emily Street and Lawkholme Lane before turning left at speed on the wrong side of the road and smashing into another vehicle, writing off the Astra.

He was handcuffed by police officers pursuing him on foot after failing to co-operate.

He was lethargic and unsteady on his feet and tried to hide a small amount of cocaine down his sock.

Hussain admitted to the police that he had been in possession of cocaine but declined to answer any questions in interview.

He was bailed while the police investigated if his driving had been impaired by drugs.

Hussain failed to re-attend at the police station on May 12 and was not re-arrested until October 31.

The court heard he was convicted in 2006 of driving while unfit through drugs and, in 2010, he was sentenced to a community order for possession with intent to supply Class A drugs. He also had a conviction for driving without insurance, when his licence was endorsed with eight penalty points, in April 2013.

Hussain's barrister, Gerald Hendron, said his client was married, in work and had stayed out of trouble for six years.

He knew nothing about the car being bought with counterfeit money.

Hussain had been addicted to Class A drugs but he had turned his life around, turning his back on his previous offending.

The judge, Recorder Simon Batiste, banned Hussain from driving for two years and three months.

He told him: "This was a police chase when you were, to some degree, impaired by cocaine."