A danger driver who shunted a patrol car twice during a police pursuit was jailed for 15 months at Bradford Crown Court today.

Banned driver Billy Terry already had a previous conviction for dangerous driving when he caused front-end damage to the West Yorkshire Police vehicle and left two police officers with slight injuries on August 19 last year.

Terry, 23, of Higher Brockwell, Sowerby Bridge, was driving a Vauxhall Vectra on false plates and still banned from driving because he hadn’t taken an extended test following his previous dangerous driving conviction in 2017.

Martin Robertshaw, prosecuting, said that he drove off when he was spotted behind the wheel of the Vectra in the late afternoon.

Terry, who had a passenger in the car, reversed away from the police on Station Road, Sowerby Bridge, and failed to stop.

During the six-minute pursuit he stopped to let his passenger out before suddenly braking on Rochdale Road and reversing twice into the patrol car. Having deliberately shunted into it he drove off at speed towards Ripponden.

Terry ran two red lights, forced his way through traffic and mounted a grass verge before hitting a wheelie bin and some recycling boxes.

His car was eventually stopped when he drove down a single track road and an oncoming van blocked his path.

Mr Robertshaw said the two officers in the patrol car suffered slight injuries during the pursuit and Terry later admitted he had drunk some alcohol and had smoked cannabis.

He pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and driving without insurance.

In June this year, while he was on bail, he was caught behind the wheel of a Ford Mondeo being driven in the Halifax area on false plates. He admitted driving while banned, driving without insurance and fraudulent use of a vehicle registration plate.

Terry’s barrister, Gerald Hendron, asked the court to consider a suspended prison sentence but Recorder Thomas Moran said he must go immediately to prison.

He jailed Terry for a total of 15 months and banned him from driving for two years and 32 weeks.

He described it as a particularly bad case of dangerous driving in August last year and said the offences this June were brazen.