Police rammed by driver high on coke

A SPEEDING driver doing 134mph on the hard shoulder of a motorway caused a horror smash leaving two police officers badly hurt.

- By Grant McCabe

Dylan Hood was high on cocaine and had an expired licence at the time of the three-car smash on the M8 in Glasgow on July 24, 2024.

The 28-year-old ploughed into an unmarked police vehicle as officers were dealing with another driver they had stopped.

One constable was left with brain injuries and is yet to return to work more than a year later.

Hood ran from the scene before later being found outside a pub.

He later callously stated to police: "These things happen, mate."

Erratic

Hood - who had previously been banned from from driving - yesterday appeared at the High Court in Glasgow, pleading guilty via his KC Lili Prais - to a charge of causing serious injury to a total of six people by dangerous driving.

Hood was remanded in custody and will be sentenced next month.

He had initially been a passenger in a Mercedes that day before jumping into the driver's seat, despite having taken cocaine.

He went too fast in the city's Springburn area and passed a car on the wrong side of the road before going on to the M8 at junction 15.