THIS is the terrible moment a racing Audi RS3 driver smashed into a wall while doing up to 100mph down Bradford’s Canal Road.
The high-powered car can be seen crashing in a flash of fire that catapulted the blazing engine block six feet from the wreckage.
Last Friday, Tabish Khan, 23, of Moorlands Avenue, Fagley, Bradford, was jailed for 27 months at Bradford Crown Court for the ‘almost suicidal’ piece of driving in the bor-rowed black Audi.
Today, the Crown Prosecution Service released footage to the T&A of the moment of impact that was played in court.
It shows Khan losing control of the car while on the wrong side of the road and smash-ing into the Skoda dealership seriously injuring himself and his friend Mohammed Shah.
Both were unconscious in the vehicle when a police officer who had just started to fol-low them came on the scene moments later.
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The Audi had joined up to four more vehicles that were seen speeding in convey around the middle of Bradford.
Just after midnight, the police officer saw two dark-coloured cars racing along Canal Road at what he believed to be 100mph.
He activated his blue lights and set off after them only to see ‘a flash of fire’ moments later when the Audi crashed.
Prosecutor Richard Walters said the officer came across ‘a scene of carnage.’ The car had demolished a lamppost and caused extensive damage to the wall at the Skoda dealership.
The engine was on fire about six feet away from the vehicle, which was so badly dam-aged that the officer couldn’t at first tell what make it was.
Mr Walters said the drivers of two white VW Golfs that were racing with the Audi and the dark-coloured car stopped to watch and then made off.
Mr Shah, who worked as a delivery driver, suffered a brain injury, facial fractures, a frac-tured right hip and a broken pelvis.
Khan’s injuries included a broken ankle, broken ribs and a punctured lung.
He pleaded guilty to causing serious injury to Mr Shah by driving dangerously on Febru-ary 21 last year.
Judge Colin Burn said the Audi was built for high-speed driving. Khan was racing in it that night with a dark-coloured car and two white VW Golfs.
The roads were wet and he tried to overtake the car he was racing by going on to the wrong side of a dual carriageway. He was unable to control the Audi on a bend and he crashed.
It was far too fast a vehicle for him to control properly as he ‘careered around the cen-tre of Bradford.’ In the ‘almost suicidal move’ to overtake, he crashed with such force that the engine block was catapulted out of the Audi.
Khan and Mr Shah were very lucky to have survived the impact, Judge Burn said.
Khan had used the public roads in the middle of Bradford as a racetrack.
He was banned from driving for two years on his release from prison and until he passes an extended retest.
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