A rogue motorist was jailed after he drove at police and forced oncoming drivers to scatter.
Ashley Hollywood, 23, from Middlesbrough, was a known banned driver when police saw him driving a green Chevrolet with stolen registration plates.
He sped off and officers next saw him filling up the car at the Blue Bell garage in Acklam, Teesside Crown Court was told.
When he spotted them he left without paying and he drove the car towards them, before reversing at speed and away.
Prosecutor Jenny Haigh said that he caused oncoming drivers to avoid a collision as he overtook traffic at speed towards a roundabout at The Sporting Lodge.
He had taken £14.47p of fuel from the garage without paying, and earlier that day at Teesside Crown Court he had appeared for a case adjournment, and he had no insurance or licence to drive.
He had been disqualified on September 2 2012 after fleeing from police and for failing to stop when he collided with a van.
Then on March 4 a CCTV operator saw a number of apparently drunken men getting into a car in Darlington. There was a police pursuit, and five men got out of the car leaving it locked.
Hollywood was identified as the driver, and he had 17 convictions for 33 offences.
Stephen Andrews, defending, said that Hollywood knew that an immediate prison sentence would follow for the offences. He had a child who lived with the mother and his father was a car dealer in Darlington..
The judge warned Hollywood that he faced longer and longer prison sentences if he continued to commit offences.
Judge Guy Whitburn QC told him: “You are clearly a feckless young man and you don’t learn by experiences.”
Hollywood, of Wheatley Close, Middlesbrough, was jailed for 25 months and disqualified for five years after he pleaded guilty to making off without payment, dangerous driving, no licence, handling stolen goods, driving while disqualified, no insurance, failing to stop after an accident and breaching a suspended sentence order
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