Drugged-up driver almost hits families walking back from school

A father-to-be has been jailed after nearly killing families walking home from school when his car careered off the road – whilst he was high on cannabis.
Matthew Stothers, 21, was spotted driving erratically and on the pavement in his mum’s Renault Clio - which he was uninsured and unlicensed to drive.
Officers then followed him and captured the extraordinary moment his by police, who followed him.
Using dashcam footage, they were able to capture the extraordinary moment his car hit a lamppost hidden, taking off the whole front end of the car.
Stothers can then be seen fleeing the scene, while a man and a young boy rush to get out of the way of the car.
A police car then quickly takes off after him.
Stothers will spend the next 12 months behind bars after he pleaded guilty to dangerous driving at Derby Crown Court, the Derby Telegraph reported.
Sentencing Judge Peter Cooke said: 'This was a shocking example of dangerous driving.
'You took the lunatic decision to drive down the pavement which pedestrians might have been walking down who you would have mowed down and killed.
'This was 3.30pm on a Thursday afternoon in a residential road at a time when children would have been leaving school and mothers would have been going to pick them up.
'I am told that your partner is pregnant and is expecting your child later this year.
'How would you feel if your partner or child had a motor car heading towards them being on the pavement and driven the way you did, full of cannabis? You just think about that.'