Carlisle teen danger driver rammed police and crashed into pregnant woman’s car

A Carlisle teenager who used a Transit van to twice ram a police vehicle during a high-speed chase that ended with him smashing into a pregnant woman’s car has been jailed.

Provisional licence holder Tylor Alan Lockhart, 19, came to the attention of a constable on mobile patrol just after 12pm on January 24.

Lockhart was followed on to Pennine Way in Carlisle but thereafter ignored blue lights and sirens, the city’s crown court heard today.

Lockhart’s van mounted a pavement alongside Pennine Way School while pedestrians were in the area. He then drove through a play park onto Hunters Crescent, causing another motorist to take evasive action, and hit more than twice the speed limit on Cumwhinton Road.

He skidded briefly at a junction before leaving the city, entering 30mph Cumwhinton at 60mph. During the pursuit, he twice stopped, reversed and rammed the pursuing police vehicle, sped past a female horse rider — causing her alarm — motored through Scotby and drove through a red light at road works.

There, his van collided head-on with a car driven by a woman who was 25 weeks pregnant. She suffered only minor injury, but she was left anxious and distressed about the fate of her unborn child, while her vehicle was worried off.

Lockhart, of Beverley Rise, Carlisle, later admitted dangerous driving, no insurance and having no full licence. His lawyer, Jeff Smith, conceded his driving was “appalling” and caused by his fear of returning to custody having previously been sentenced for child sex offending and court order breaches.

Recorder Philip Grundy jailed Lockhart for 10 months. He must serve a three-year driving ban when released and pass an extended re-test.“You were calculating in the way you were driving to try and escape,” the judge told him. “It is pure luck that no one has been seriously injured or killed.”