A DRUG driving Bollywood actor who was more than three times over the limit when he smashed head-on into a cabbie at 50mph has been jailed.

Mizanoor Rahman Ali, 30, of Iqbal Court, Laisterdyke, had been causing an obstruction in the street with friends in two other cars when he was told to move along by police officers on November 26, 2018.

At about 2.50pm, police turned from Leeds Road into Thornbury Street, where they saw Ali in his BMW blocking the road with two other cars as they chatted among themselves.

As Ali drove away, police followed behind and he seemed to be travelling way in excess of the speed limit, prosecutor Paul Nicholson said.

He said: “There was queuing traffic and police presumed he had gone past it as they couldn’t see the BMW.

“A number of people were pointing in the direction of Sticker Lane and Leeds Road, where there had been a three car crash involving the BMW.

“There was extensive damage to the cars and a hole in a wall.

“A small bag of green plants was on the ground next to the BMW and he was arrested for possession of cannabis

“When he was tested at the police station he was three and a half times over the limit for cannabis.

“He reached speeds of 50mph in a 30mph area driving on the wrong side of the road trying to overtake a bus.”

CCTV footage showed the BMW going up the wrong side of the road at speed before crashing head first into another car.

One car Ali hit contained a family with a young child, and the other was a private hire car, leaving the driver with multiple lasting injuries and causing him a “significant loss of income” as the car was a write-off.

Mitigating, Shufqat Khan said the driving “was a short failure to drive in the proper manner” and bore out of “impatience”.

He said Ali is self-employed, running a “media shop” in Wyke, and also working as an extra on Bollywood movies filmed in Bradford, appearing in the films Gold, and The Accidental Prime Minister.

In sentencing, Judge David Hatton QC said: “You demonstrated your impatience, overtaking a car already overtaking a bus.

“You drove at ludicrous speed and caused a crash causing considerable damage to other vehicles, and injuries and financial loss to the other drivers.

“This was aggravated by the fact you were considerably over the limit for cannabis while driving, three times over the limit.

“You should have been nowhere near a car, and a custodial sentence is the only sentence that can be employed.”

Mizanoor Ali was jailed for ten months, and banned from driving for 20 months.