Dangerous driver crashed car into fence

A South Tyneside danger driver desperate to evade police crashed his car into a garden fence when he jumped from it while still moving, a court heard.

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Kieran Carberry, 28, was tailed in Cleadon by officers who spotted him driving a Vauxhall Astra above the speed limit on Friday, September 19.

The five-minute chase ended when Carberry, of East Street, Whitburn, drove into a dead end, prosecutor Clare Haswell said.

Instead of giving up, he leapt from the driver’s seat, abandoning the motor to career into the fence and causing up to £300 of damage.

At South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court, he pleaded guilty to charges of dangerous driving and failing to provide a sample for analysis.