Watch as driver is caught snorting cocaine before leading police on chase through Cambridge

A driver who was caught on CCTV snorting cocaine before leading police officers on a chase through Cambridge has been sentenced.

CCTV operators in the city spotted driver Samuel Batters pull over just after 3am on 10 August, snort drugs, then drive off.

Police were contacted and found Batter’s Kia Sportage in Victoria Road but despite appearing to stop, he drove away, colliding with parked cars and fences.

Batters, of Highfield Drive, Littleport, was arrested in Highworth Avenue at 3.38pm following a short foot chase.

He tested positive for cocaine and cannabis and gave a roadside breath sample of 74, more than twice the legal limit of 35 microgrammes per 100 millilitres of breath.

At Cambridge Crown Court on Friday, 22 November, Batters was sentenced to 12 months in prison, suspended for two years, after previously pleading guilty to dangerous driving, drink driving and failing to stop after a road accident.

He was also disqualified from driving for 22 months and given a three month curfew to remain home between 8.30pm and 7am daily.

PC Shelley Cannon, from the road policing unit, said: “Batters showed total disregard for the safety of other road users, passengers and potential pedestrians who might’ve been in the area at the time.

“His driving fell far below that expected of a competent and careful driver which goes to show the effects alcohol and drugs have on a driver’s confidence and risk-taking behaviour.”