Witnesses who saw James Andrew Sparham's driving in the hours before he crashed into a house foretold he would kill or hurt someone, York Crown Court heard. 

From 7.25pm on September 2, the 29-year-old was involved in a series of incidents  in different parts of York that other motorists and pedestrians remembered and later described to police. 

Judge Paul Batty QC said he was on a "motorised pub crawl".

York Crown Court heard Sparham had previous convictions for drink driving and speeding. 

Rachel Landin, prosecuting, said the first incident on September 2 was at 7.25pm on Haxby Road, close to the Clarence Road playground and its junction with Wigginton Road. 

Sparham was revving his engine and breaking the 30 mph speed limit. 

A motorist was so concerned at the way he was driving, she later told police she had thought: "Someone is going to get hurt," Ms Landin said. 

Both Sparham's passengers when he crashed into the house were hospitalised with serious injuries, as was the father of the family who lived in the house. 

At 8.15pm, a second motorist was doing 40mph in a 30mph stretch of dual carriageway in Clifton Moor approaching a single carriageway stretch. 

Sparham, with a carload of passengers, tried to overtake him as a car approached in the opposite direction and the second motorist had to slam on his brakes so sharply internal warning lights came on.

At 8.50pm, two dog walkers in Rivelin Way, in which Sparham was later to crash into a house, saw him revving his Golf and going well over 30mph along the residential road with parked cars.

"The driving led him (one of the dog walkers) to believe there would be an accident or the occupant (Sparham) could kill someone," said Ms Landin.  

At the roundabout outside the Flying Legends pub on Stirling Road, Clifton Moor, two young teenage cyclists had to pedal fast to get out of Sparham's way. 

At 10.30pm Sparham drove aggressively along Poppleton Road near the Fox Inn past a line of traffic and through a red light. 

Both his passengers when he crashed into the Garnetts' home told police they didn't believe he had had alcohol. Neither knew him well. 

Sparham offered Sophie Armitage a lift to the Beagle pub in Foxwood Lane.  On route, he drove so fast she asked him to slow down. 

She told police normally male drivers showing off would slow down when asked.  But Sparham didn't.

She didn't remember anything about the journey away from the Beagle. 

Nathan Lofthouse got into Sparham's car around 10pm and was later given a lift away from the Acomb Hotel on Kingsway West. 

As they travelled along Longwood Road, Clifton Moor, he shouted at Sparham to slow down, but didn't think the driver heard above the music he was listening to.  Mr Lofthouse noticed the speedometer was at 80mph.

Longwood Road leads into Rivelin Way.  The rear of the Garnetts' house faces Rivelin Way. 

Sparham, of Geldof Road, Huntington,  was banned from driving for 18 months in April 2015 for drink driving on Front Street, Acomb, when he was nearly twice the drink drive limit. 

York Crown Court heard he got a car a fortnight after the ban expired in October 2016.

In June 2017 he was convicted of speeding and was involved in another incident in August 2017. 

A week before he appeared before York Crown Court, magistrates banned him for six months when a speeding conviction took him over 12 penalty points under the totting up system.