Driver involved in frightening road chase was high on meth

The two drivers tried to force the other off the road and one car had rear ended the other a number of times, the court heard.

The two cars were seen racing and ramming each other, forcing other motorists off the road.

A MAN high on meth had engaged in a frightening cat and mouse duel with another driver through the streets around Highfields, Toowoomba Magistrates Court has been told.

Andrew Glen Wilson had pulled his car alongside the other vehicle, sometimes on the wrong side of the road and crossing double white lines, as the two vehicles approached Highfields on February 8, the court heard.

So dangerous had the two drivers behaved that other vehicles had to swerve off the road to avoid them, police prosecutor Shelby Larcombe told the court.

The two offending cars were seen to ram each other in attempt to force the other off the road and Wilson had rear-ended the other car a number of times, she said.

The driving was so dangerous members of the public called police.

Eventually the 47-year-old had pulled over and ran off, jumping a fence and trespassing through a yard on his way home in Highfields, Ms Larcombe said.

When spoken to by police, Wilson appeared affected by drugs and said people in the other car had been chasing him.

He pleaded guilty to dangerous operation of a motor vehicle while adversely affected by an intoxicating substance and disqualified driving arising from that incident as well as to drug driving while disqualified on Bridge St, Toowoomba, on February 8, and failing to provide a statutory declaration late last year.

Describing the driving as “a very frightening incident”, Magistrate Kay Ryan sentenced Wilson to 12 months in jail, wholly suspended for two years, placed him on three years probation and disqualified him from driving for 30 months.