A DRUG DRIVER has been jailed after mounting the pavement in a car chase in Bridport.

Jamie David Williams, 42, from Axminster, admitted driving whilst unfit through drugs and was jailed for 16 weeks in a hearing at Weymouth Magistrates Court on May 8.

As reported in the News, police officers made a ‘tactical manoeuvre’ to collide with a silver Rover driven by Williams through Bridport on February 26.

East Street was closed during the incident, which was also attended by South Western Ambulance Service.

Insp Mike Darby of Bridport Police said: “I’m very pleased at the significant sentence given to Williams.

“Drink and drug driving accounts for the majority of deaths on our roads, and it was a possibility Williams could have killed or seriously injured somebody in Bridport when he drove his car on the pavement.

“When he comes out of prison we will be closely monitoring him to make sure he doesn’t do it again.”

It is understood that Williams was wearing pyjamas when he was arrested.

On the day of the incident, Sgt. Dave Stroud from Dorset Police’s traffic department said: “At about 2.13pm a silver Rover car was circulated to police as being a drug driver.

“A short while later the vehicle was seen in East Street travelling towards the East Road roundabout, and at this time the nearside wheels on the Rover were on the pavement.

“Being market day in Bridport, there was a large number of pedestrians in the area.

“A traffic police vehicle travelling in the opposite direction saw the silver Rover and used a tactical manoeuvre to collide with the Rover at slow speed, bringing it to a halt.”

He added: “Prior to that car being stopped, it had collided with two vehicles.

“Neither the male driver of that car, the other occupant of that car, nor the police officer, were injured in the incident, although the passenger of the car was checked over in an ambulance.”