A man from Stoke-on-Trent has been jailed after he drove on the wrong side of the A500 to avoid police.

Michael Doherty, 31, from Tunstall, was sentenced at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court on Friday 7 June to a year and 10 months behind bars after pleading guilty to driving a motor vehicle dangerously, driving whilst disqualified, driving without a license and driving without insurance.

Doherty has also been banned from driving for five years and 11 months and given eight penalty points.

This comes after Doherty was spotted driving a grey Audi A3 down the wrong way on Foundry Street, Hanley, during the early hours of 8 December last year.

Doherty has been jailed for one year and ten months (Staffordshire Police).

He then mounted the pavement on Trinity Street, Hanley, to avoid a road closure and continued to drive dangerously through the Chell Heath and Tunstall areas.

Police followed him through Kidsgrove and stung one of the tyres. Doherty then drove on the wrong side of the A500, against oncoming traffic, to get away.

The Audi came to a stop on Newcastle Street, Longport, with the car no longer driveable.

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Shortly after, Doherty was detained and having been questioned in custody, he was subsequently charged with the offences.

At the time he was arrested, Doherty was found to only have a provisional license.

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