Watch driver ram Sussex Police car before speeding wrong way down major road

A man led police on a terror road journey when he sped off from a Copthorne garage after ramming a police car.
A police car was rammed at a Copthorne garage  SUS-200115-162543001A police car was rammed at a Copthorne garage  SUS-200115-162543001
A police car was rammed at a Copthorne garage SUS-200115-162543001

Officers say that the trouble began when they were alerted that a man was asleep in the back of his car at a petrol pump at a service station in Copthorne Common Road, Copthorne.

Two police cars arrived on the scene, one parking behind the vehicle and one in front.

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Police say that the man - landscape gardener Patrick McCabe - woke up and rammed the police car parked behind his vehicle before speeding off.

Officers, assisted by the police helicopter, pursued 24-year-old McCabe who, they say, ‘drove with excessive speed, almost collided with a transit tipper van and even drove on the wrong side of the dual carriageway.’

McCabe was tracked driving down a pedestrian path before fleeing from the vehicle and attempting to hide underneath a car in a nearby hotel carpark.

He was detained by officers and charged with dangerous driving, driving without a licence, driving without insurance and two counts of criminal damage.

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And at Lewes Crown Court on December 20, McCabe, from Caterham, was given a 19-month jail sentence, suspended for two years and disqualified from driving for two years.

He was also required to undertake 15 rehabilitation activity days.