A BANNED driver who drove at 100mph during a 50-mile police chase across North Yorkshire on country and main roads has been jailed and banned from the roads for nearly five years.

John Leonard Frame, 40, continued to try and evade officers as one of his tyres shredded until the wheel was bare, said Lucy Brown, prosecuting.

Police had to use a stinger and box him in to stop him.

He drove on the wrong side of the road and went the wrong way round roundabouts and through red traffic lights and forced other traffic to take evasive action.

He was driving his stepfather’s car without permission less than a month after he received a suspended prison sentence and driving ban for a similar offence and has 32 previous convictions for breaching driving bans, York Crown Court heard.

Frame, who represented himself, said he was looking for his daughter who was not answering her phone and had panicked when he saw the police.

Judge Simon Hickey told Frame it was only by good fortune that no-one had been killed or injured.

“I think the public needs a rest from you,” he said as he passed a driving ban of four years, nine months and two weeks.

He also jailed him for 14 months, plus five months from the suspended prison sentence Frame received in May.

Frame, of Victoria Road, Scarborough, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, driving without insurance, driving whilst disqualified, and aggravated taking of a vehicle without consent. He must take an extended driving test before driving again.

Ms Brown said the chase began on the A64 just outside Scarborough at 1.20am on June 11 when Frame refused to stop for a police patrol car. He fled down the dual carriageway and onto the A19 southbound at Fulford reaching 98mph as he drove through the 40mph zone at Crockey Hill.

He continued to break the speed limit as he drove through Stillingfleet and reached 100mph on the road to Cawood where he went through a red traffic light. He drove through Selby onto the A63 heading west and was finally stopped near Monk Fryston where he was arrested at 1.41am.

The stepfather didn’t know his car had been taken until police told him. Frame claimed he was trying to reform himself.