Locked up: Driver was high on drugs when he crashed BMW into three cars in Telford street
A man who cut off his own probation tag crashed into three cars in a friend’s BMW in Telford while high on drugs.
Mohammad Khan, aged 20, will serve an 18-month sentence at young offenders institution after admitting five driving offences that happened just months after he was released for a previous sentence.
Shrewsbury Crown Court heard how on the night of May 7 this year Khan smoked cannabis before borrowing the keys to a friend’s car, which had been left in the porch of a house on Crescent Road, Hadley, Telford.
Robert Edwards, prosecuting, said that police, who happened to be in the area, heard the squealing of tyres and a loud smash, and went to investigate.
On arrival at the house, they found the BMW with airbags deployed, a Renault that had been dented along its length, and a Honda and Peugeot which had both suffered damage to their rear ends.
Khan, of Rookery Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, was running towards their unmarked car.
He was detained and told police he had cannabis and a grinder on him.
Chasing
Khan claimed that he was chasing a man in a hooded jacket who had caused the damage when the police stopped him.
One of the officers searched him to find the key to the BMW, and he was later found to have 4.5mg of cannabis per litre of blood in his body. The legal limit is 2mg.
Khan had only been released from a young offenders institution in March, after being convicted of dangerous driving in December of 2017.
The court heard that he had been thrown out of his family home and had cut off the ankle tag he had been ordered to wear.
Adrian Roberts, defending, said Khan was suffering family troubles and that he had come to Telford to be with his friends.
Judge Jonathan Gosling sentenced Khan to 10 months in a young offenders institution for dangerous driving and two consecutive months each for driving while disqualified, causing criminal damage, failing to stop after an accident and driving while under the influence of drugs.
The judge said: “This instance of driving was on a residential street when people might have been coming and going. You were fortunate at that time of night that you didn’t hurt or kill someone, because you take a chance when you drive in that condition.”
