A BANNED and uninsured driver was deliberately rammed by two pursuing police vehicles as he sped across rush-hour Bradford after injuring a woman in a collision.

Adam Coleman was racking up his fourth dangerous driving offence as he drove a van on the wrong side of the road at double the speed limit, forcing oncoming traffic to swerve and hitting a VW Golf.

The woman driver banged her head on the car window and was left shocked and dazed by the impact, Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday (Friday).

Coleman, 37, Mary Street Caravan Site, Mary Street, West Bowling, Bradford, was jailed for 18 months and disqualified from driving for seven years and nine months, although Judge Jonathan Rose said he had no confidence that he would abide by the ban.

Coleman, who was recalled to Leeds Prison on licence, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and driving uninsured and while banned on August 25.

Prosecutor Alisha Kaye played footage in court of the five-minute police pursuit starting at 7am and heading along Tong Street and Rooley Lane towards Dudley Hill.

Coleman, with multiple motoring offences and breaches of court orders on his record of 33 convictions, sped away from the police down Whitehall Road.

During the chase, he ran a red light, mounted the kerb, crossed over on to the wrong side of the road several times and did 73mph along Tong Street.

His van was rammed by a police vehicle that was so badly damaged it couldn’t continue the pursuit. But Coleman pressed on his heavily damaged van and had to be rammed by a second officer to finally stop him.

Solicitor advocate, Nicholas Leadbeater, conceded that Coleman’s criminal record did him no favours. But since his last release from prison he was making good progress until he made the stupid decision to drive the van.

He had a job renovating kitchen worktops and he was trying to be a good grandfather.

He knew he was going straight to prison and had vowed to make this his last court appearance.

Judge Rose said Coleman had no respect for the law, society or the police. His only mitigation was his guilty plea.

This was a case that best illustrated how inadequate the two-year maximum sentence for dangerous driving was. Coleman, with three previous dangerous driving convictions on his record, would have to be given credit for his guilty plea.

“You just do what you want, without thought of any consequences for others,” Judge Rose said.

He ordered the deprivation of the van.

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