A banned driver who was disqualified in June was seen popping wheelies on a motorcycle, and crashing into a Mini car just six months later.
Zane French was banned from the roads for ramming a van three times and damaging other cars in Willingham Street in January last year.
But on November 2 at 1.20pm, French, 31, of Heneage Road, Grimsby was seen by police riding a motorcycle on a footpath, driving on Pasture Street and narrowly missing a pedestrian crossing the road. Officers eventually caught up with him when he ploughed into the rear of a Mini on Town Hall Street and fell off the motorcycle just yards from the court he ended up in.
Prosecuting, Blaise Morris told Grimsby Crown Court, he told police “Let me go. You have got me now.”
French admitted driving without due care and attention, driving while disqualified and having no insurance. CCTV of the motorcycle going through town was shown at court.
Mr Morris explained how French was banned in June by Judge John Thackray KC, who imposed a a 13-month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months. He ordered an 18-month community order to include 20 Rehabilitation Activity days and a three-month electronically-tagged curfew from 9pm to 6am.
He banned French from driving for 12 months and ordered an extended retest. That was for dangerous driving by driving at 70mph in a 30 mph limit. Thousands of pounds of damage were caused to parked cars.
For French, Craig Lowe said his client had complied with the curfew, and completed almost all his requirements. He said he had now stopped drinking . “It was not a significant distance and of limited duration,” he said.
Recorder Gerladine Kelly said: “You were lucky you were not injured when you collided with the back of the Mini.”
She imposed a 12-month community order and fined him £250 for breach of the suspended prison sentence which remains in place. He was banned from driving for 12 months.