A DRINK-DRIVER was doing up to 120mph on the M62, braking sharply and weaving in and out of traffic, shortly before he was involved in a three-vehicle crash, Bradford Crown Court heard today.

Ansar Nasir’s white BMW struck the rear of a pensioner’s car sending it spinning into the crash barrier, before hitting the front of a heavy goods vehicle.

He was over the drink-drive limit for the second time during the “aggressive” driving at around 8pm on September 21, 2018.

Nasir, 33, of Redburn Avenue, Shipley, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving on the westbound carriageway near Junction 25 and driving over the prescribed limit.

The court heard that a motorist driving to work in Liverpool at 70mph recalled Nasir coming “out of nowhere” and “barrelling up behind him at about 100mph.”

He undertook the man at speed, braked sharply in front of him and accelerated away at 120mph, prosecutor Paul Canfield said.

Other drivers reported hearing the roar of the BMW’s engine as it sped along.

A woman aged 81 in a Hyundai car had reduced her speed to let a lorry in when she heard a loud bang.

Mr Canfield said that Nasir’s vehicle had run into the back of her, sending her car spinning 360 degrees into the crash barrier.

She was taken to hospital and her vehicle was a write-off.

Nasir then struck the lorry damaging its front end.

He blamed other drivers for the crash and appeared to be under the influence of something, the court heard. People at the scene said he was weaving in and out of the traffic.

He failed a roadside breath test and was found to have 56mg of alcohol in his breath which is over the prescribed limit.

Nasir had seven previous convictions for 14 offences, including driving with excess alcohol, driving uninsured and while disqualified, and fraud by false representation for giving false details when he was stopped by the police.

Mr Canfield said that although he wasn’t being sentenced in relation to the accident, Nasir’s driving before it was aggressive.

His barrister, Andrew Dallas, said Nasir had been waiting almost three years for the case to conclude.

He was working in Manchester at the time and had lost that job. An interim driving ban had already kept him off the road for 22 months.

“It was a few seconds driving in a complicated scenario on a four-lane motorway,” Mr Dallas said.

Nasir was a hard-working family man with a young child. His job was helping vulnerable and disadvantaged adults in their accommodation. He also supported his parents.

Judge David Hatton QC sentenced Nasir to ten months imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, with a 20-day rehabilitation activity requirement and 100 hours of unpaid work.

He was banned from driving for three years from the date of the interim disqualification and until he takes an extended retest. He can cut the ban by three months if he completes a drink-drivers’ course.

Judge Hatton said: “The course of driving was rapid, aggressive, selfish, inconsiderate, impetuous and impatient and, most importantly, dangerous.”