A person who rode an e-scooter at 100km/h whereas making an attempt to evade police on a predominant highway in Canberra has been jailed.
Bodycam footage reveals James Cole driving the scooter alongside the sting of Majura Parkway and passing vehicles as law enforcement officials on motorbikes tried to drag him over on December 23 final yr.
The 38-year-old left the highway and continued driving alongside a motorbike path the place a number of cyclists had been informed to dismount to keep away from a collision.
Cole finally fell off the e-scooter and the pursuing officers arrested him.
"My job's on the road, man," Cole is heard saying on the police bodycam video.
"Please, it is Christmas and that."
Cole examined constructive to methamphetamine in a roadside drug take a look at after his arrest.
He was transported to hospital for minor accidents and the scooter was seized by police.
Cole pleaded responsible to seven prices in courtroom.
He'll spend one month in jail and serve the remaining three months in the neighborhood beneath a superb behaviour order.
ACT Policing mentioned it welcomed the choice by the courtroom.
"The person positioned himself and different highway (and bike path) customers at important threat following his determination to initially trip at near 100km/h on the Majura Parkway after which to repeatedly ignore police instructions to cease," it mentioned in a press release.
"All e-scooters ridden on ACT roads and pathways should have a most pace of 25km/h and may solely be ridden at 15km/h when on a footpath.
"Pursuing officers ensured individuals on the pathway had seen them by activating emergency lights and sirens and had moved off the pathway whereas they continued to have interaction the scooter rider."
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