Lock them up and throw away the key. ‘Lunatic’ driver banned for ramming car on motorway and
sending it spinning across two lanes of traffic
Dashcam footage shows Stephen Jack, 59, aggressively trying to undertake the Peugeot 3008 on the M6, but instead colliding with it
A road rage driver has been banned for ramming a car on the motorway and causing it to spin across two lanes of traffic.
Stephen Jack a self-employed electrical contractor of Hawthwaite Lane, Barrow , Cumbria, pleaded
guilty at Preston Crown Court to dangerous driving and failing to stop on Monday 4 April.
He was given a six-month custodial sentence, suspended for 12 months, ordered to complete 150 hours community service, pay £295 compensation, £400 costs, an £80 victim surcharge and was banned from driving for 18 months.
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Bob Hoton was driving in the fast lane (3rd Lane) southbound on the M6 at Charnock Richards near Leyland when a black Nissan pick-up truck began flashing its lights behind him.
Mr Hoton, 62, said the Nissan Frontera appeared to want to overtake but he did not move over because of other cars in the first two lanes.
However, seemingly the Frontier driver’s frustration got the better of him and after a dangerous attempt to undertake, he collided with Mr Foton’s Peugeot 3008, forcing him to spin and take refuge on the hard shoulder.
Mr Hoton, from Clitheroe in Lancashire, captured the incident, which took place at 6.58am on March 26 last year on a dashcam positioned inside his car.
He said: “I drive a lot of miles for my job, as a control system engineer contractor, and I see a lot of crazy driving, so I’d got the camera put in my car,” he said.
Mr Hoton was sent spinning into the hard shoulder by the force of the impact
“I saw him coming up behind me at speed, he started aggressively flashing his lights to try and get me to move over but there was traffic at my left. By the time it cleared, he had decided to undertake and ended up ramming into my car.”
Mr Jack said after his court appearance that the incident had been a “moment of madness”.
“It wasn’t a deliberate act on my part to crash into him,” the father-of-three said.
“I didn’t realise I had hit anyone. At the end of the day, things were quite stressful in my life at the time. My mother-in-law and father-in-law were living with us, they were both dying.
“The decision I made was the wrong one, it was a moment of madness.”
Source: Mirror