Watch: Moment dangerous driver who rammed police car goes the wrong way in Stone town centre
A dangerous driver has been jailed after he struck into a police vehicle before driving the wrong way down a road in Stone.
Staffordshire Police said the incident happened in Stone High Street on August 19 when officers from its major and organised proactive team stopped a blue Volkswagen Golf being driven by Oliver Reice Jones in Redhill Road.
But when the officers tried to detain him instead of stopping Jones drove into a police vehicle in a bid to flee causing considerable damage to both vehicles during the incident which happened at around 6pm.
Jones then drove the wrong way along Stone High Street, a one-way street, narrowly avoiding pedestrians and a bus. The VW was later found abandoned nearby in Regent Street.
Two days later just before midday on August 21 Jones was a passenger in black Land Rover Defender on a pub car park in Derby.
The vehicle was monitored by officers as it travelled into Staffordshire and was stopped on the A50 in Stoke-on-Trent with support from our road crime team. Jones was then arrested for his actions in Stone.
On November 3 Jones, aged 26, of, from Newcastle-under-Lyme was jailed for one year and three months at a sentencing hearing at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court after pleading guilty to an offence of driving a motor vehicle dangerously.
