Boy racer jailed under car cruising injunction
Council bosses who secured a ground-breaking injunction banning car cruising in the Black Country have welcomed the jailing of a motorist caught speeding in Wolverhampton.
Tejinder Singh, from Babors Field in Bilston, was spotted tearing along the A463 Black Country Route in a friend's Range Rover at speeds approaching 90mph.
The 23-year-old was racing alongside a VW Golf driver back on June 29 2014 and at one stage nearly toppled the 4x4 as he tried negotiating a roundabout at Over Field Drive.
Although his 27-year-old 'rival' admitted dangerous driving and street racing, Singh denied the offences, claiming the other man 'cut him up' and that he gave chase briefly in a moment of madness.
However, he was convicted at Wolverhampton Magistrates Court last week and jailed for five months. He was also disqualified from driving for 18 months and will have to complete an extended re-test in order to get his licence back.
West Midlands Police traffic officer Pc Adam Jobson said: "Both vehicles were racing each other at dangerous speeds and with spectators spilling onto the carriageway it was a fatal accident waiting to happen."
The injunction was allowed to continue last month, after a hearing in the High Court.
Before the injunction came into force there were a number of hotspots around the region.
The injunction defines car cruising as the act of drivers meeting on the public highway on either an organised or impromptu basis to race or show off in their cars, and bans people from taking part in a car cruise anywhere within Wolverhampton, Dudley, Sandwell and Walsall, or from promoting, organising or publicising any such event.
Karen Samuels, Wolverhampton council's head of community safety, said: "We take car cruising and street racing very seriously. We welcome the tough sentence which has been handed out in this case, and trust that it will serve as a warning."
