WATCH: Driver jailed for 14 months after high-speed police chase through residential streets
This footage shows the high-speed police chase through residential streets for which a motorist has been jailed for dangerous driving.
Traffic officers attempted to stop Yassir Ali as he drove a silver BMW 1 Series that was believed to have been stolen. on Weoley Castle Road.
The car pulled over on Weoley Castle Road, and a passenger got out and attempted to obstruct the police car as Ali drove off at high speed.
Officers pursued the car as the 29-year-old sped through red lights and drove on the wrong side of the road - narrowly missing oncoming traffic.
The BMW eventually came to a stop on Bristol Road as Ali drove onto the pavement and got the car wedged between a bollard and the front of a shop.
Ali, of no fixed abode, was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving and taken into custody following the pursuit on February 22.
Appearing at Birmingham Crown Court on March 30 he was sentenced to 14 months behind bars.
PC Neal Drew, from the Central Motorway Policing Group, said: "Ali's actions that day were completely unacceptable and by driving the way he did he put innocent members of the public at risk.
"We take this kind of dangerous driving extremely seriously and that has been reflected in the lengthy sentence handed down by the courts."
