SPEED DEMON - Dramatic footage shows reckless Nottinghamshire driver ramming police car during 75mph chase

A reckless driver who was caught on camera repeatedly ramming a police car during a dramatic 75mph chase before crashing into a bollard has been spared jail.
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Graham Ryder, 48, dangerously ran through red lights and drove on the wrong side of the road after failing to stop for officers in Bullwell.

Shocking footage shows the thug ramming the pursuing officers by breaking suddenly and reversing into their patrol car.

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Traffic cops tried to pull over Ryder in his black Ford Focus after he sped past them just after midnight on January 20.

Damage to the suspect vehicle.Damage to the suspect vehicle.
Damage to the suspect vehicle.

He then hit the wing mirror of a parked car before speeding away along residential roads at 75mph.

The yob can also be seen jumping red lights and dodging road works with little regard for other drivers or pedestrians.

He eventually crashed into a stone bollard, which left him with a broken wrist, fractured rib and fractured vertebrae in his spine.

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Ryder, of Bullwell, was charged with dangerous driving and criminal damage, to which he pleaded guilty at a hearing earlier this year.

But he avoided jail at Nottingham Crown Court on Wednesday after being sentenced to 18 months imprisonment, suspended for two years.

He has also been disqualified from driving with a re-test requirement.

PC Kyle Hackett, of Nottinghamshire Police, said after the case: "Ryder took the law into his own hands when he drove in such a dangerous manner and held no regard for the safety of other road users or pedestrians.“He could very easily have killed someone or himself the way he was driving.

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