A banned and uninsured driver was deliberately rammed in the road by two police vehicles as he sped across a city in rush-hour after injuring a woman in a collision.

Adam Coleman, 37, was racking up his fourth dangerous driving offence as he drove a van on the wrong side of the road at double the speed limit.

He forced oncoming traffic to swerve and hit a VW Golf, causing the driver to bang her head on the car window, Bradford Crown Court heard on Friday.

Dramatic dashcam footage from police shows a force car ramming him, while moving, forcing the car to spin to a halt.

A banned and uninsured driver was deliberately rammed in the road by two police vehicles as he sped across a city in rush-hour after injuring a woman in a collision.
cc WYP — A banned and uninsured driver was deliberately rammed in the road by two police vehicles as he sped across a city in rush-hour after injuring a woman in a collision. cc WYP

Coleman from West Bowling, Bradford, was jailed for 18 months and disqualified from driving for seven years and nine months.

Judge Jonathan Rose said he had no confidence that he would abide by the ban.

Coleman, who was recalled to Leeds Prison on licence, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and driving uninsured and while banned on August 25.

Prosecutor Alisha Kaye played footage in court of the five-minute police pursuit starting at 7am.

Coleman, who has multiple motoring offences and breaches of court orders on his record of 33 convictions, sped away from the police.

During the chase, he ran a red light, mounted the kerb, crossed over on to the wrong side of the road several times and did 73mph along Tong Street.

His van was rammed by a police vehicle which was so badly damaged it couldn't continue the pursuit.

But Coleman pressed on his heavily damaged van and had to be rammed by a second officer to finally stop him.

Solicitor advocate, Nicholas Leadbeater, conceded Coleman's criminal record did him no favours.

But since his last release from prison he was making good progress until he made the stupid decision to drive the van, he said.

He had a job renovating kitchen worktops and he was trying to be a good grandfather, the court heard.

He knew he was going straight to prison and had vowed to make this his last court appearance, it was said.

Judge Rose said Coleman had no respect for the law, society or the police.

"You just do what you want, without thought of any consequences for others," Judge Rose said.

He ordered the deprivation of the van.

Police forced to ram a banned and uninsured driver twice as he sped across Bradford after injuring woman