High driver ran red light, ran on wrong side of the road before running into a police car
The 21-year-old was released from jail for dangerous driving just five days before leading police on a dangerous chase north of Brisbane.
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A young man who led police on a dangerous chase north of Brisbane just days after he got out of jail will be without a licence for close to a decade.
On the afternoon of Sunday, June 7, Aaron Leigh Mills drove a stolen car along Anzac Ave in Kallangur, a court heard.
Police attempted to stop Mills but he refused to pull over. He ran through a red light and drove on the wrong side of the busy road.
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The court heard other motorists were forced to swerve out of the way to avoid a head on collision.
Mills eventually hit a police spike strip that blew the cars’ tyres, but he still did not stop.
The pursuit finally ended when Mills ran the car into a marked police car.
Mills, 21, had been using drugs earlier and had only been released from jail on parole for dangerous driving five days earlier.
Mills pleaded guilty at Pine Rivers Magistrates Court to eight charges including dangerous driving, driving while his licence was disqualified and evading police.
Police prosecutor Courtney Rantala told the court Mills’s driving could have been deadly.
“He is a danger on the road and that is an understatement,” she said.
“That no one has been killed by his driving is good luck, not good management.”
Magistrate Leanne Scoines said Mills’s behaviour on the road was terrifying.
“It was an absolute disaster waiting to happen. How you didn’t kill yourself or someone else is really just luck,” she said.
Mills was sentenced to two and half years jail and will be eligible for release on parole in February.
He was fined $6672 and his licence was disqualified for two years for evading police, three years for driving while disqualified, two years for drug dealing.
Those disqualifications will be on top of his existing four year licence disqualification.
Ms Scoines said only Mills’s age prevented her from putting disqualifying his licence absolutely.
‘Nobody wants to see you spend your life in prison,” she said.
“But that’s what’s going to happen if you continue with this offending behaviour.”
Originally published as High driver ran red light, ran on wrong side of the road before running into a police car