A drugged-up driver who caused an horrific four car smash while overtaking at up to 90mph has been jailed for 16 months.

Grant Parr was four times the legal cocaine limit when he hit an oncoming Renault Clio while overtaking a line of three cars on a bend, Bradford Crown Court heard today.

Parr’s Seat Leon then span into a Lexus that rotated into a Volvo, flipping it on to its roof, on the A65 near Chelker Reservoir between Skipton and Addingham.

Parr, 25, of St Andrew’s Close, Yeadon, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving shortly before 9am on April 30 last year and driving under the influence of cocaine.

His denial of three offences of damaging property being reckless as to whether life was endangered were accepted by the prosecution.

Witnesses saw Parr doing up to 90mph on his way towards Addingham. Drivers sounded their horns as he weaved in and out of the traffic causing one vehicle to brake sharply.

The driving was so dangerous that one motorist thought Parr was trying to kill himself, prosecutor Philip Adams said.

A woman driver was looking for a police officer to alert when she came across the accident moments later.

The driver of the Clio swerved to avoid a head-on crash, the court heard.

The front of his car was ripped off and it went through a stone wall into a field.

The Volvo ended up on its roof in a field and the Lexus was spun in the carriageway.

Parr was airlifted to Leeds General Infirmary but neither his injuries, nor those of the five crash victims, were particularly grave.

“By some miracle, there were no serious injuries,” Mr Adams said.

The woman passenger in the Clio sustained a sprained neck while other people suffered a sprained ankle, bruising and soreness. A girl aged 11 had abrasions to her face and neck.

Parr made no comment in his police interview.

He had nine previous convictions for offences including acting in a manner likely to endanger an aircraft, house burglary, damage and battery.

Parr’s barrister, Alasdair Campbell, said Parr had not driven since the crash.

“He knows how lucky he is to be here, and how lucky the people in the other cars were,” Mr Campbell said.

Parr acted with “blatant irresponsibility” because of the amount of cocaine in his system.

He was very remorseful and had pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity.

Parr and his partner cared for five young children and he was a hard-working builder’s labourer, the court was told.

He had kept out of trouble for the past five years.

Judge Jonathan Rose said Parr’s driving was “horrific”.

“It is as bad as one could ever see on a British road,” the judge told him.

“It was persistent, high speed, aggressive dangerous driving.”

“The maximum sentence for dangerous driving, of two years, is woefully inadequate in a case such as this,” Judge Rose continued.

It was only down to luck that no one was disabled or killed.

Judge Rose said that Parr’s demeanour in the dock, and the fact that he had not driven since the crash, showed him to be genuinely remorseful.

Parr was banned from driving for four years and eight months.