Shocking moment banned tipper van driver drove wrong way down dual carriageway and rammed a police car off the road
According to Sergeant Roberts, the embankment at the side of the road cushioned and slowed his spinning vehicle as it left the carriageway. "Had it been a downhill slope from the road, the car would have overturned," he noted.
During the nerve-wracking chase on the A19 highway, two police cars, one marked and one unmarked, pursued Ferguson after he ran red lights. Police Chief Superintendent Neil Hutchison called it "among the most dangerous pieces of driving I've seen in 25 years of policing." Ferguson was arrested and in July was sentenced to 30 months in prison for charges including dangerous driving and assault causing bodily harm.On July 19, Ferguson, of Broadway, Gateshead, appeared at Newcastle Crown Court and pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, driving while disqualified, driving without insurance and assault causing actual bodily harm.